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Windows Update posts 100% uptime, beats Apple, Ubuntu | |
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| Time: 23:53 EST/04:53 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Royal Pingdom has posted the results of a short study that looked at the availability of the software update services for three popular operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu. The site looked at "access point" availability for Windows Update (update.microsoft.com), Apple Software Update (swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/index-1.sucatalog), and the main Ubuntu repositories (archive.ubuntu.com) throughout the second quarter of 2008. Pingdom's uptime monitoring service performed a test once every five minutes and if downtime was found, it was confirmed from two different locations and was counted for however long it lasted. The results were then tabulated in a graph. | ||
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| #1 By 7754 (75.72.153.112) at 7/15/2008 2:36:40 AM |
| Thus again proving the unreliability of running Windows vs. that of the "rock solid" *nix. Oh, wait.... |
| #2 By 82766 (122.107.48.75) at 7/15/2008 5:02:16 AM |
| hehe... but one does have to admit that its a funny "uptime" stat to be proud of :-) |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 7/15/2008 8:05:08 AM |
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Is MS still using Akamai to distribute updates? Is Akamai still using Linux servers primarily?
As for the test, I would be interested in seeing the data points for when the repositories were offline. Ubuntu 8.04 was released in April and every Ubuntu-related server in the world gets hammered after a release. |
| #4 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 7/15/2008 9:08:01 AM |
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You know.. the story we need to be discussing is the convergence of cecurity and systems management and how distributed/hosted management services are growing. Similarly, Integrating hosted management services to the enterprise and SMB markets is going to be huge.
Beginning with asset management through licensing and compliance management, systems, security, rights, business continuity and users... and one place for leaders in various roles to be able to effectively execute their responsibilities. When one considers these things and where we as an industry are headed, it becomes much more relevant and important to discuss availability of update systems and the architecture behind them - how well can non-MS activities add these new services and how well can they enable enterprises to off-load the infrastructure and other costs associated with them? MS is so far ahead in these areas - so much so that they have the only practical solution available. I am fascinated by these trends and what they will mean for enterprising IT pro's - a smart engineer will be able to support dozens of paying customers all on his/her own without ever owning a server. Long before Ubuntu/*nix or Apple ever take over meaningful desktop numbers, they're going to face another wall and one they are never likely to get over, but they may get around.... via some court forcing MS to give away its management systems in the name of fairness... |
| #5 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 7/15/2008 9:28:12 AM |
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#4: but they may get around.... via some court forcing MS to give away its management systems in the name of fairness...
That certainly won't be required. After all, I've been hearing for at least a year now that Microsoft's middle name is 'interoperability', so I'm sure MS will happily allow non-discriminatory access to their server APIs. |
| #6 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 7/15/2008 9:43:57 AM |
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#5, You see in your statement the real problem... the issues, opportunity and frankly, the responsibility, are not limited to 'interoperability'
all of the above are much more about the integration of a system of systems - which MS should not be compelled to forfeit. Often, court actions attempt to do exactly that. It is very hard to explain to people who have not evolved that kind of service - where managing not just a bunch of server types is where the value is, but in the platform and its architecture. It takes a very long time to build that and bake in the required skill and understanding from that larger perspective. So when we say things like 'interoperability' casually, we're not helping anyone - especially not enterprises where their entire world centers on building and sustaining what I am talking about. I think where you get confused is that when MS speaks to 'interoperability' they are truthfully offering just that - what they are not willing to do, nor should they be made to do, is all the other very hard work - costly work, that makes all of it work as one well integrated solution that can scale in, up, down and out. That's where organizations serving the EU seem so ridiculous to so many of us. (as an example) |
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