Anchor crashed again today, Friday Oct.26th at approximately 8:30am

Behaviour / symptoms are consistent with other crashes in recent weeks.

It is expected that anchor may remain up and running for as long as 2 more weeks, or, it may crash again at any time. At this stage is is difficult to predict reliably.

Fortunately, plans are moving forward with scheduled retirement for Anchor. We're looking to retire anchor (Sun Sparc Solaris) and deploy "New Anchor" (Linux platform, 8 x 2.6ghz CPU hardware) sometime the week of Nov/5th. It will be a drop-in replacement, ie, the new anchor will be rechristened "anchor", while the "old anchor" will re renamed thus and be left operational for a reasonable period of time to facilitate any unexpected surprises being resolved.

All user data will be migrated transparently prior to the server switch.