That means 99.99 percent system availability, even as traffic surges and new product lines are added. If we don't stay up and running, it's like closing our doors and turning away sales. More than a hundred Compaq ProLiant 1850R and 6400 servers support both the front-end Web interface and the middleware application that connects the front end to the massive Oracle databases on the back end.
Scalability is terrific, because it's easy to add processors or servers as demand grows.