The "Five Eights" of J2EE Availability

Woah! I thought that the J2EE guys knew how to build enterprise applications, but apparently that's just a myth. Check out the “Five Eights” expose by Rick Ross, founder of JavaLobby.

The ironic thing is, I've been beating on Microsoft for 2 years to develop a Resource Kit (as opposed to an SDK) for .NET and never managed to get anywhere. Maybe after Microsoft is done addressing Security they can apply the same emphasis to RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability). An acronym, by the way, that I happen to remember being drilled into me as a new IBM salesman more than 20 years ago.