5ea AW51B's last reboot Oct 10, 2003 still up and happy 4ea AW51E's last reboot May 28, due to building power failure - still up and happy 3ea Windows 2k servers rebooted 6 times this year alone due to required OS patches! 1 windows server in particular had to be rebooted 9 times due to a service that would hang and could not be ended with task manager. (the task manager just doesn't cut it.) My 2 cents in a nutshell - windows is not a good fit in any application that cannot tolerate "maintenance reboots" Sean Meltvedt Process Control Engineer > 2) Solaris is more stable than XP. Ok, here I must confess that I have not personally used any of the new XP stations but I have used the NT ones in the past. As an operator workstation, they seem to be pretty good (the install procedure is more of a pain than the Solaris boxes though). The problem comes when installing 3rd party utilities to regain some of the functionality of the Unix stations. The more apps added to windows stations, the more stability problems that seem to occur: lockups, blue screens, resource problems, etc. I remember a presentation given by someone (I forget who) from Foxboro at the last User's Group meeting in Orlando. They had a slide showing the Mean Time between Failures for Windows NT vs. Windows 2000. NT had something like 20 days and 2K was much better. Now you are asking what does this have to do with XP, well not much, but I remember before the new stations we released, Foxboro was touting that the NT stations were just as stable as the Solaris based ones. An MTBF of 20 days (Foxboro numbers) does not (to me at least) seem as stable as the Sun boxes. So now the new XP boxes are said to be as stable as the Sun ones: this seems to be a contradiction. I have Solaris WP's that have been running for over a year, could I really expect the same from a Windows box??? I admit that I have some bias when it comes to the Windows stations, but it is a bias that comes from experience. I would gladly embrace Windows stations that give me all the functionality and stability as the Sun boxes, but I have not seen this yet. Has anyone? _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave