iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?

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The  FAA  I guess.

John Carr
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LOTUS, ISERIES ON THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION RADAR
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Lotus and the IBM eServer iSeries have taken off with the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA). The agency, which regulates the airline industry in
the U.S., recently revamped its e-mail system to take advantage of a
Domino/Notes environment. By migrating to the messaging and collaboration
infrastructure from the retired cc:Mail software, and testing Domino
performance on iSeries servers rather than those that run Microsoft Windows
NT, the FAA is looking for increased productivity and stability. "The FAA
has been a loyal customer of Lotus for the past eight years," says Steven
Murphy, the Lotus account manager for the U.S. Department of
Transportation. "They realized messaging is only a small part of the way
they do business and communicate among themselves."

The announcement of cc:Mail's demise in 1997 forced the FAA to evaluate its
corporate communications infrastructure. The FAA discovered that what
sufficed in years past was inadequate by today's standards. Its messaging
system had become outdated. The agency analyzed how its employees
communicated and developed requirements that included collaboration,
calendaring and scheduling, and document management. The FAA has
consolidated 850 cc:Mail mailboxes spread over 379 locations into 12 server
locations. Two other projects, which haven't been implemented yet, include
the deployment of extraneous software such as Sametime.

The Aircraft Certification Service, a department within the FAA devoted to
ensuring that airplanes are designed and manufactured safely, recently took
steps to optimize its Domino environment by moving from Microsoft NT
servers to the iSeries. The FAA hopes the switch will reduce the number of
servers it must support and increase reliability of Web applications.
Running a Domino application on NT, "they are forced to reboot every night
to keep the site up and running," says Tom Harrison, manager of Domino
administration at Computer Applications Specialists, Inc., the company that
consulted with the FAA on the migration. "They purchased two [iSeries]
servers because they heard it was a more stable platform [for Domino]."

-- Jill R. Aitoro, Group Computing Industry Reporter