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

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In article <3pKdnQFAu92jkUjXnZ2dnUVZ_rCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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.

My cell phone is backed up to a luddite paper telephone log book.  In fact,
that's really all I use as I can't figure out the bastard GUI interface to
save a phone number.

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