I guess a few people will mention this over the next few days but I can’t let it pass without comment. Meta Group performed a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) study comparing MS Exchange with Lotus Domino. The report which ended up as pro-Microsoft was riddled with fundamental flaws (which are documented here) and was …
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Catch Up
After a couple of very busy weeks and no relaxation at all I have just been having a slow day of sleeping, tinkering and catching up with paperwork. It shouldn’t make much difference but working for 12 days straight really takes it out of me.
Not a good day
After the long weekend I was hoping that today might be a little easier. Unfortunately not. When I got in this morning one of the servers had a fairly massive hardware failure which took it out of commission for an hour. Then the other server in the cluster managed to corrupt it’s address book so …
Completed
We finished at about 9 o’clock last night when UAT was signed off. There are a couple of minor issues to sort out today but unfortunately we have now had a hardware failure on one of the servers in the cluster so that has to be dealt with first of all. I think today might …
And we’re into the home straight
The servers are upgraded and compacted, the designs have been rolled out and I have done all of my config changes. The UAT team are in just running through their scripts. A couple of little funnies have been found but they are being caused by me being tired rather than any problems with the server. …
Decision Made
It’s been agreed that we carry on with the upgrade. There are some risks associated with it but the general feeling was that they were acceptable and that the impact on the other projects would be too great. So I am in here for the rest of the day waiting for another compact to finish …
Some progress but still likely to rollback
OK we now think we understand (at least to some degree) why the server is not happy with our jar file. We had included some Java 1.2 collections classes (e.g. Hashmap, Hashlist etc) which obviously were not in the 1.1 JVM. Now that the server has gone up to 1.3 our extra inclusions are no …
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Not good news
Unfortunately the upgrade has not gone to plan. The servers upgraded fine, the compact went without a hitch but when the admin team tried to restart both servers in the cluster crashed with a JVM error message. Some very quick investigation work has narrowed the problem down to one of our jar files which is …
Upgrade weekend
The start of what could be a nice simple weekend or a nightmare. We are upgrading a fairly large application which I am involved in to ND6. The actual server upgrades are happening this morning and then a compact starts at lunchtime which will take some time as our nsf’s are about 40gb in total. …
Well Done Simon
Congratulations go to my brother, Simon, who has just finished the Nottingham half marathon in 2 hours and 30 seconds. Hope the legs don’t ache too much tomorrow.
Matt White 