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

[P. Sture]

In article <hb4hb1$bdd$1 at south.jnrs.ja.net>,
 "Richard Brodie" <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote:

> "P. Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> wrote in message 
> news:paul.nospam-6664A5.13462014102009 at pbook.sture.ch...
> 
> > An insurance company that represents a Hewlett-Packard customer filed a
> > lawsuit against the tech giant, claiming the failure of an HP storage
> > server cost the customer more than $990,000 in damages and lost
> > business, InformationWeek has learned exclusively."
> 
> I feel the commenter was somewhat wide of the mark in suggesting that
> betting your business on a single storage controller of another brand was
> a good idea. Buy a Hitachi, they guarantee 100% uptime. Yeah, right. 

You are of course perfectly correct about not betting the business on a 
single storage controller.

It's not the commenter that worries me, more that the customer was 
outsourcing the data centre to one party (Sungard) and monitoring of the 
unit to another (HP), claimed from the insurance company, who in turn 
sued HP for a disaster.  It's the notion of "outsource then sue if 
something goes wrong" that isn't right here.

-- 
Paul Sture