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One of the reasons our Unix systems are ideally suited to power the Extended Enterprise is our ability to guarantee 99.95 percent up time. We're the only company in the industry that can make that guarantee. Delivering 99.95-percent uptime translates to just four hours of unplanned downtime a year. The next best offer in the industry — 99.5 percent of time — equals 44 hours of unplanned downtime a year. In the past year, we have accelerated our product- development efforts. The result is a Unix roadmap that we believe will keep us in a clear position of leadership. The V2250 systems we introduced earlier this month are based on our new, 240 MHz PA-RISC processor. They are the world's fastest single-processor Unix servers — ideally suited for mission-critical and technical applications. We expect to double high-end single-system performance each year. That means that today's high-end of a V-Class system will be the midrange of our family by the year 2000.Furthermore, we plan to take today's 99.95 percent availability guarantee and push that up to 99.999 — 5 minutes of unplanned downtime per year — by the year 2000.We call this our "5nines:5minutes" vision, and we have succeeded in getting two powerful industry leaders — Cisco and Oracle — to embrace this vision and work with us to achieve it.
我們的UNIX系統之所以特別適合擴展型企業，原因之一是我們能確保99.95%的開機率。我們是業界唯一可做此保證的公司。開機正常運行時間多達99.95%，意味著一年的意外停機時間僅為四個小時。而業內僅次于我們的最佳開機率為99.5%，相當于每年的意外停機時間為44小時。去年，我們加大了產品開發的力度。其結果是我們制定了UNIX開發藍圖，我們認為這將使我們明顯地處于領先的地位。本月早些時候我們推出了基于新型的240 MHz PA-RISC處理器的V2250系統。它們是目前世界上最快的單處理器UNIX服務:器，適用于關鍵業務和技術應用程序。我們希望，每年都能將高端單一系統的性能翻一番。這意味著，到2000年，今天的V系列系統高端將成為我們系列中的中檔產品。其次，我們計劃，到 2000年，將現在的99.95%的開機率提髙到99.999%——達到每年意外停機僅有五分鐘。我們稱 其為“五個9:五分鐘”目標，我們已與業界兩個頗具實力的領先者——思科公司和甲骨文公司達成共識，為實現這一目標而共同奮斗。
