____/ Linonut on Thursday 17 April 2008 12:22 : \____
> * Richard Rasker peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> http://www.iaps.com/2008-server-reliability-survey.html
>>
>> "all versions of UNIX -- which typically carry very high workloads -- are
>> near bulletproof, achieving 99.999% reliability.
>> ...
>> The top Linux distributions Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Novell
>> SuSE Linux notched the biggest reliability improvements in the latest
>> 2007-2008 survey. Each decreased per server per annum downtime by an
>> average of 75%. [to something in the order of an hour for RH and Novell,
>> and five hours for Debian]"
>>
>> A decrease with 75% over a one year period can be called an impressive
>> improvement. And newcomer Ubuntu seems to be doing very well too:
>>
>> "Ubuntu, which appears in Yankee Group's Global Reliability Survey for the
>> first time this year, has also come on strong and is an open source
>> operating system to be reckoned with. Some 22% of the survey respondents
>> are running at least one Ubuntu server at their sites. And it has proven
>> highly reliable, with 1.1 hour of per server, per annum downtime."
>>
>> But how did the competition do?
>>
>> "The biggest and most unwelcome surprise in the survey was that Windows
>> Server 2003 downtime increased by 25% to nearly 9 hours of per server,"
>>
>> Oops ...
>> So, all this seems to indicate that on average, Windows server systems
>> experience several times the downtime of Linux server systems. But the
>> overall long-term trend is quite good for all systems:
>>
>> "In the past two years, the Yankee Group polls indicated that all of the
>> major server operating system platforms have achieved a much higher degree
>> of reliability than they experienced in the prior decade."
>
> What about Win Server 2008?
Probably worse. At this stage, it's only for the 'brave' to use (if they manage
to have their software installed on it... same compatibility problem as ugly
sister Vista).
Hyper-V in Server 2008 RTM doesn't like non-US locales
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| Annoying. Yes, it is mentioned in the release notes - but what if Hyper-V
| beta had required you to set a non-US locale at install time? Do you think
| Microsoft would have flagged this problem more prominently?
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/11/hyper_v_localization/
Microsoft officially 425 years behind the times
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| It's not just Excel and Exchange that ignore the Gregorian calendar. The Reg
| has also confirmed that SQL Server 2008, Windows Small Business Server, and
| Windows Mobile are ignorant as well.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/sql_server_hit_by_leap_year_bug/
Microsoft web developers branded pants
,----[ Quote ]
| The strokers of beards and Volish nay-sayers have been claiming that reason
| is Windows Server 2008. They claim this on the very safe assumption that
| since Microsoft installed it, vole.com has been running like a condemned man
| with his legs cut off on his way to his own execution.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/11/microsoft-web-developers-pants
This eWeek [on Servers]
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| I asked Jason about Windows Server's newfound security: "The first time
| I heard about this new feature," he said, "I thought it was clearly a
| response to Linux.
|
| Windows Server 2008 isn't quite there yet, according to Jason's tests.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2134429,00.asp
What will run on Windows Server 2008 — and when
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| Are we in for a Windows-Vista-like experience, where even some of Microsoft’s
| own applications didn’t work with its new operating system for weeks, if not
| months?
|
| [...]
|
| A number of Microsoft server apps that won’t support Windows Server 2008
| until the latter half of 2008, when service packs providing Server 2008
| compatibility are released.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1153
Windows server URL sends you to Apple
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| TYPE IN windowsserver2008.com into your browser and after it thinks a bit, it
| takes you straight to the Apple site.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/31/windows-server-url-sends-apple
There’s no Windows Server 2008 SP1 in the works. Here’s why
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| Chalk that abnormality up to Microsoft’s ongoing attempt to more closely
| synchronize its Windows client and Windows server releases. Because Windows
| client and server are built from the same core and thus get patched with many
| of the same updates and fixes, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are
| now "on par."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1193
Hyper-V isn’t the only Windows Server 2008 virtualization solution that’s
lagging
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| But it’s not just Microsoft’s own Hyper-V that isn’t quite ready for
| prime-time. Several other virtualization products from Microsoft’s
| competitors and partners aren’t 100-percent enterprise-ready, either, at this
| point.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1225
Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features
,----[ Quote ]
| The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor
| technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the
| technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server
| "Longhorn" operating system, due to be finalized before the
| end of the year.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html
Advice for the MCSE: go back to school
,----[ Quote ]
| Number one on that list is a simple reality: everything changes, and by
| betting against industry wide change you’re leaving yourself, your family,
| and even your community hostage to Microsoft’s continuing commercial success.
|
| [...]
|
| Not many people like Microsoft - and there are better alternatives: Linux on
| the server side, MacOS X on the user side.
|
| Is it going to happen tomorrow? Probably not, but it will - and when it does
| a lot of today’s MCSEs will be caught out: essentially unemployable in
| comparable professional roles without significant, unanticipated, and
| uprooting personal change.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1081
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