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Downtime at Ebay Gives Sun Competitors Ammunition

Computergram International, May 11, 1999

Web auctioneer Ebay Inc appears to be playing into the hands of Sun Microsystems Inc's critics when it posts details of service outages. Ebay installed a Sun E10000 server in February to replace a 6500 server. It's claimed there have been 18 outages since. Rivals point out that Sun's current system uptime claims of around 99.95% equate to 4.38 hours of downtime a year.

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At roughly thirty minutes per reboot, that's nine system restarts. When the E10000 with Oracle dies, Ebay site users can still view items but cannot bid.

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