Someone else talking about 5 9's in SOA

Business Continuity is an interesting topic. As an SOA testing firm we like to make the distinction that "reliability" at a statistical uptime level, is only part of the challenge of Five Nines. As hardware and bandwidth become more commoditized, that becomes something you can buy fairly easily. Ok, so, the title looks familiar? Service Architecture - SOA: Five Nines in a Service Oriented World - Part 1 the problem Now we are seeing companies thinking of 5 9's in a Functional sense: Can I trust the accuracy and integrity of the process. "Failure" isn't downtime of the connection or the app server, etc., it is a failure of the system to provide the right business logic. In any case, thanks for the discussion and we invite you guys to check out our whitepaper on this topic: http://www.itko.com/site/resources/59s.jsp