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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <ta2Bm.142582$Y83.59984 at newsfe21.iad>, "John Vottero" <John at MVPSI.COM> writes:
>> "BillPedersen" <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> wrote in message 
>> news:24aed94d-39ea-418a-8e57-33a04c440452 at s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com...
>>> The current debacle of T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger (what a name) and
>>> the loss of personal data on some 800,000 Sidekick PDAs is without a
>>> doubt another example of why people should only bet their businesses
>>> on systems time tested and shown to be reliable - OpenVMS being the
>>> obvious candidate.  The story can be found here:
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=8306
>> You can't fix stupid.  The rumor mill says that the upgrade of a Hitachi SAN 
>> failed which is when they discovered that there wasn't a backup.  The 
>> boneheads running this place could screw up anything, even OpenVMS.
>>
>> http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/11/sidekick-failure-rumors-point-fingers-at-outsourcing-lack-of-ba/
> 
> M$ will, of course, blame Hitachi and not their own ASSininity.
> 
> 

There's plenty of blame to go around.  I back up my PDA to my PC.  My PC 
  does a weekly backup to a LinkStation Pro.  It would take three 
hardware failures to make me lose all that stuff: PDA, PC, and 
LinkStation.  My cell phone is also backed up to my PC.