[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based

[Bob Koehler]

In article <df1d80a1-d34e-442a-8e6b-2c8ad8690bb2 at 37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, BillPedersen <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> writes:
> 
> The loss of data on the T-Mobile Sidekick network is due to a "massive
> server failure".  Servers run by Microsoft/Danger. I do believe that a
> server environment running OpenVMS is much less likely to have a
> "massive server failure" than one based on MS products.  It also
> sounds as if there was no "backup" environment here so obviously there
> was no planning for a "disaster" which is exactly what they have.

   Danger may have been using Microsoft RAID, and failing to also
   back up to offline storage.  We've seen failures of MS RAID due to
   errors in MS software (yeah, big surpise there) writing trash over
   all copies of the data store.