Re: SQL Server: 99.9 percent uptime guaranteed !?

[email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)]

AFAIK, the inherent problem with trying to use NT has a server is that it only 
does one thing well per machine.  So you would need a
file server, printer server, communications server, application server, etc.

And that doesn't even begin to address the security issues.

So, although you may be able to file serve, what about the rest?

James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Klgore.com

P.S. I don't know what the cost of a hot swappable RAID-5 server would be, but 
inexpensive doesn't come to mind.

boothm@ibm.net wrote:

> Just guesssing here, but I'd guess the AS/400 advantage then would be price.
>
> By the time the other package was delivered and running with the specs you 
>suggest the cost would no longer be drastically lower.
>

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