On 06 Nov 2002 23:39:05 -0500 Michael Kingsbury <mike@beakerware.net> wrote: MK> Wish I had a way of proving it for you guys, but we had a MS SQL 7.0 MK> server running NT 4.0 that was up for approx 2 years at my last job. MK> MK> Our NT admin was wary about rebooting it due to the fact he never MK> touched it since he started working there less than two years ago MK> and never had to administer much on it.... MK> MK> (Not that I like MS products much better than anything else, but MK> there are exceptions to the rule.) ...and I'm sure you've all heard about the Novell server at the University of North Carolina that was found behind a wall after four years (that's 1460 days, give-or-take), right? if you haven't, there's a link to the story here: http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012 you have to admit, that's pretty admirable for a box that got sealed behind drywall.... <g> can't imagine what it did for ventilation... naturally, i am not foolish enough to consider Novell over a *nix box, but i just had to say that before certain people thought otherwise. <gd&r> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com He who spins a web of trickery must expect to end up caught. * TAG! v3.1 *