Enterprise SQL Software?

I just don’t understand how Microsoft considers some of their products Enterprise software. Most recent case - I have been moving mailboxes to a new Exchange server over the past few days. I moved the mailbox that the SQL Mail on the SQL servers is setup to use… and it broke SQL mail. No jobs were sending their emails anymore. I verified Outlook worked from the SQL server (don’t even get me started on the need to have a full mapi client installed on production servers) and all was well there. The SQL Mail test button also worked. But no email from the jobs that needed to send email.

So, after hours I had to restart SQL services on the production SQL servers. Now how is this Enterprise software? This is not the first time I have had SQL Mail cause issues requiring a restart of the SQL services to get email working through SQL Mail. I just don’t understand how this can be called Enterprise quality software.

Fedora Core 6 Slips

The Core 6 schedule was adjusted today. The release date has moved from October 11th to October 17th. Jesse Keating posted the following to the Fedora Announce List"

From Jesse Keating:

"We regret to announce a slip of the Fedora Core 6 release schedule. A few issues are still present that we would like to see fixed before we release.

- Possible ext3 corruption bug

- Installs with 256megs of ram stall

- Package ordering issues on multilib platforms (x86_64, ppc64)

- SELinux issue with updating kernels on ppc platforms

- iscsi based installations not functional

There are obviously other issues and bugs still open, but these are the ones that are really "blocking" the release. To give enough time to fix these issues, we've extended the release date 6 days to Tuesday, Oct 17th. Freezes are still in place (even more so now). Your extra careful testing of rawhide over the next few days would greatly be appreciated.

Keep an eye on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule for any changes."