Re: ORACLE RAC CRASHES ORBITZ

Blair Adamache <badamache_at_2muchspam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bg8mlp$sii$1_at_hanover.torolab.ibm.com>...
> I believe Orbitz is also running Sun and Veritas, at least according to
> eWeek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1196879,00.asp

Yeah, that was the article we were laughing about in another thread, where the spokesbimbo said the database people are really smart guys.

We still don't know what the real architecture is (of course, I tend to be a day or two behind on all this), Mike posted in another thread something about a rumor that it could have been due to a NIC driver problem on a Dell. My speculation is they have both Suns and Dell's still for various purposes. Maybe their "rearchitecting in a day" really meant turning off the Dells and turning back on the old Sun :-)

The RAC was dissed by Dell
The RAC was dissed by Dell
Hi Ho the Verio
The RAC was dissed by Dell

A few days ago, a local university TV station rebroadcast a Q/A with Michael Dell from last May. He said he had a framed Forbes (IIRC) magazine cover on his desk - it was the "Entrepreneur of the Year, Ken Olsen." My wife heard that and went "Who's that?" as I cracked up.

So what can we learn from all this?

"Guaranteed no data loss" does not mean your business hasn't been shutdown. It only means you might be able to get something up to a point in time. The lost business/transactions beyond that don't count.

Failover can fall over.

People still don't understand that hardware is prone to failure, misconfiguration, integration problems, insufficient quality control, and general abuse of statistical forecasting of failure. Commodity hardware compounds these issues. Software can only handle so much of it. Management can only handle so much of software.

Murphy was an optimist.

>
> Joel Garry wrote:
> > mikerault_at_earthlink.net (Mike Ault) wrote in message news:<37fab3ab.0307280417.1c8e82e_at_posting.google.com>...
> >
> >>Just a rumor mind you, but the Orbitz glitch has been traced to some
> >>hardware issues...will post more if I hear more.
> >>
> >>Mike
> >
> >
> > SUN or commodity? Enquiring minds want to know!
> >
> > (Having personally observed SUN controller lie to computer, and having
> > serious doubts about commodity hardware being any better, I will laugh
> > 'till I puke if it was a controller issue).
> >
> > (disclaimer: I own a small amount of stock in JNI).
> >
> > jg
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > But I haven't lost money.
> > http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030627-9999_1b27ipo1.html

jg

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