Way to go Yahoo!
Looks like Yahoo hasn't learned the lessons of eBay and their availability problems from last year.
Maybe I'm biased (Nah!) but given that the technology for designing reliable, high availability computer systems is
older than the Internet (With Compaq now owning 2 of the
most well known solutions - OpenVMS and Tandem Non-Stop Himalaya servers) seeing this kind of thing happen does not give one the warm & fuzzies for the long range success of Yahoo.
Not planning for things like this is really inexcusable in a 24x365 world. Especially since Yahoo claims they are "powered by Compaq" and the database in question is supposed to be Oracle (which has licensed clustering technology from Compaq to provide availability/reliable systems to avoid problems such as this.
Too bad....
5:05:23 PM 
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