I've been running a production system on a 450 since 1999; it's been rebooted maybe once every 8-9 months, usually because of a power failure or because the crappy tape drive died again, sometimes just because I decide it's about time for a reboot. It's in a room with poor temperature control, poor ventilation, lots of dust, and cockroaches, but -- apart from the tape drives -- it's never manifested a problem. So on the whole, I'd have to say they're pretty decent boxes. (You can argue about whether they're overpriced, of course, but they're good workhorses.)
Re Oracle Calendar -- IMHO it's a much better calendar than Exchange, as long as you don't buy into the bizarre thesis that using a single application for email and calendaring is inherently superior to using separate applications, regardless of the actual interface -- which, as near as I can tell, is the primary argument for Exchange/Outlook.
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Date: 2005-06-12 05:24 am (UTC)Re Oracle Calendar -- IMHO it's a much better calendar than Exchange, as long as you don't buy into the bizarre thesis that using a single application for email and calendaring is inherently superior to using separate applications, regardless of the actual interface -- which, as near as I can tell, is the primary argument for Exchange/Outlook.