18 May
2004
18 May
'04
9:07 p.m.
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Tony Duell wrote:
Well, in my experience it's more a case of
'You'll be down for a day, and
then the machine will run for 5 years without problems' .vs. 'We'll be up
in an hour, but you'll have all sorts of problems afterwards, and you'll
probably keep on having to have another hour's fiddling every other week
or so'. Of course they don't tell you that last bit ;-)
Tony, in some cases, a business being down a whole day means that business
goes under completely. It's not as cut and dry in the "real world".
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