[geeks] Eeeek

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~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Kurt Huhn [mailto:kurt at k-huhn.com]
~ Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:45 AM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] Eeeek
~ 
~ 
~ > Overheard in a MS strategy session:
~ > "We must get users past their misunderstandings of uptime. 
~ A reboot doesn't
~ > mean that anything broke, there is no hardware or software 
~ corrective action
~ > taken, so there wasn't any real downtime."
~ > 
~ 
~ OMG!!!  Seriously?
~ 
~ The software and services are *UNAVAILABLE* - therefore you have
~ *DOWNTIME*.  WTF is so difficult to understand about that?
~ 
~ $clueless_moreon: "Yeah, I rebooted the server, but it just because I
~ wanted too, not because anything was broken.  Therefore we didn't
~ actually have downtime, so our uptime wasn't affected."
~ Kurt: "You are sooooo fired."
~ -- 
~ Kurt
~ kurt at k-huhn.com


AhYaah. Seriously. I wish I had a full transcript of the meeting.