And VINCA's product claims it doesn't even support IIS 4 at this time! It
only replicates SQL and Exchange! Octopus at least provides total
mirroring of ALL data regardless of application.... (for a price)
At 09:54 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I thought Octopus was only like $1000 or soo.....
>
>Sorry.
>Penny
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeff Woods [mailto:jwoods@delta.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 08 April, 1998 9:52 AM
>> To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>> Subject: RE: NT Server Mirroring
>>
>>
>> At 08:50 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> >Try Octopus or....Bugger, I can't remember the other one
>> that was good.
>>
>> Octopus was a FIVE FIGURE price tag the last time I looked
>> into it. WAY
>> out of line for a product like that.
>>
>> What's wrong with round-robin DNS and IIS 4.0's content replication?
>> Sure, in a failure, you have to modify the DNS to eliminate
>> hits to the
>> dead server, but that's FREE....
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