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Source: BMT Micro, Inc. (tbrad@bmtmicro.com)
Moderator: Thomas Bradford (admin@os2ss.com)
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Hi All,

For those of you trying to contact BMT Micro tomorrow (Sept
16) please take note of the following:

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Just a quick note to let you all know that ye olde hurricane
Floyd is bearing down on us and we might lose our internet
and telephone connection during the storm.  Also note that
our phone system requires electricity so if the phone rings
without an answer it's not because we decided not to answer
the phones.  ;-)  If we do lose our phone system we can drop
back to the old 6 line analogs handsets and busy out the
last 2 lines to take care of business.

In other, "hey, great timing" news.....

One of the things we've done in September is make
substantial investments in hardware upgrades which included
RAID configurations in all the servers.  If you noticed the
Supersite and the secure server (secure.bmtmicro.com) going
up and down for periods of 20-30 minutes twice this
afternoon (9/15/99) that was us swapping out drives so we
could store a mirror of each server off site just in case.

We've also have 2 heavy duty generators to power the servers
and office machines, so barring physical damage to the
structure itself we do not anticipate being down long if at
all.   Another good thing is that the switching station for
our T1 just happens to be conveniently located about 150
yards from our office so if/when the phone/data connections
go out, we're fortunate enough to be one of the first
customers back online due to our location.

Bottom line:  We thank you in advance for your patience if
we disappear for a few hours tomorrow.  Another factor in
all this is that most of us have wives, husbands, and
children to protect and it may be that we operate with a
skeleton crew in the beginning.

To our customers and vendors, all data is logged - if you
can place an order, we can find it -  so do not worry about
making an order if you have a connection to our server.
Just be patient and allow an extra bit of time for your
order to be processed.

Another item of note is that http://www.bmtmicro.com and
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com are located at our providers' simply
because we've never gotten around to physically moving the
machines so you might be able to get to the BMT website but
not the BMT secure server which _is_ at our office. If
_that_ turns into a problem, we've made arrangements to
locate our entire network at our providers and run our
office via dialup to our servers.

If you are a developer and we deliver your product in real
time you might also be interested to know that we have made
great progress in the past 2 weeks migrating our real time
fulfillment products from the old system to a vastly
improved system using Java servlets and Oracle.   Another
benefit is that much of the routine order processing  can be
done remotely since the orders are already billed and
imported into the database.  Isn't technology wonderful. ;-)

From all of us here at BMT, we thank you for your kindness
and consideration and we would like to personally think all
of you who have written out of concern.  You're the best!

Thanks from all of us!

Jimmy, Frank, Teri, Kim, Jennifer, Chris, Michele, Kristina,
Todd, Shawn and Thomas!    (lots of new faces!)

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Thomas Bradford,  Manager
BMT Micro, Inc.

tbrad@bmtmicro.com
910-792-9100 ext 15
910-350-2937 fax
http://www.bmtmicro.com
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com







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