Re: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?

[booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Don, I'm involved with a site that had a reasonably reliable NT network site and was experimenting and learning about Win2000 servers.  A Win2000 server was installed on the LAN just as a learning experience.  The next  morning the LAN was under the Win2000's control and has never worked right since.  The system works, but barely.  For example no one can explain why suddenly several desktops are having their PC clock reset to a totally incorrect time, Some of the Windows 2000 desktops just plain fail and can only be rebooted by turning off the surge protector they're plugged into.  Response times have slipped to the point that users are using their C drives for file services, e-mail works but users are being pushed to Outlook and many of them have no desire to go there,  Viruses occur regularly, even with an aggressive Virus-checking software in place. Distribution lists and List services have become a total nightmare of constant upkeep and incorrect results.

The obvious remedy is to uninstall the Win2000 server and go back to the NT servers.  Not a choice, that's not allowed by the Win2000 server.   Finally in desperation the client has hired a firm specializing in Windows server software.  The firm admits they would like to try returning to NT but they've never been successful in other attempts.  The IS director involved was offered an attractive severance package, but it cost him his job.


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Don <dr2@cssas400.com> Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com 08/18/2001 12:35 PM Please respond to midrange-l

To:        midrange-l@midrange.com         cc:                 Subject:        Re: iSeries more stable than NT?  Who says?

Dave,

I just had a major multi user win-2k pro desktop nuke it's registry... we
had several GOOD FULL SYSTEM STATE backups.  NONE, and I mean NONE would
restore...we could not get the registry or the user profile info to
restore correctly...we were in RELOAD...and I hear this is NOT an
anomoly.....

I was really pissed!

Yeah, it's alot more stable than 95 and 98...but...it still locks up.

Don in DC

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On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Bulog wrote:

> Windows 2000 AS is great,scales at a fraction of the costs to unix, iseries
> 
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jpcarr@tredegar.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:36 AM
> Subject: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?
> 
> 
> >
> > The  FAA  I guess.
> >
> > John Carr
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > LOTUS, ISERIES ON THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION RADAR
> > http://www.groupcomputing.com
> >
> > 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
> >
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