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> IBM mainframes have five nines of availability

This is incredible. I miss that time, when seen with naked eye difference of reliability of mainframes.

Now, I know many organizations using Erlang/OTP or Java EE, and mostly think them good enough comparable to mainframes environment and few times cheaper.

BTW Erlang in British Telecom achieve five nines reliability.

But must admit, Erlang/Java are not best suited for finance/lawyer applications, and I don't hear about finance/law libraries for Erlang, so this could be issue (or opportunity for somebody, depend on how you look on it).



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