Funny Stuff

Jon Doyle jon at document-solutions.com
Mon Feb 14 04:21:55 GMT 2000


I see they mention all the site running NT, but what about the failure report? Petopia.com, AT&T and dozens of Security Breaches. The Army pulled IIS (for Apple) But more real why not concentrate on the Market they are good in? I know many will not like it, but I feel the Collocation, Big Oracle, E-commerce market is Sun, and increasingly Linux, whereas NT is big in the Office for Outlook-Exchange. Even with the problems there NT does rule in the GUI-Apps that "users" like. Where Unix (Solaris-Linux) are the only valid choices for your Colo. I mean look at the Big Switches from Lucent in Telecoms, or E-Commerce they say!; Blue Marini, ATG, and IPlanet are all Unix. Whatever, M$ has to tout their warez....Most are realizing the differeces in where to deploy however. I saw a report after the Linux show in NY that said 25% of Servers last year were Linux, while NT remained steady, it is clearly indication that the market will move into specialties.

An example is funding here in the valley. Most Venture firms will look at the IT solutions and I have been told EXPECT to see Sun for security, reliability, and if NT is involved it is bad. Meaning Sun, Cisco, and Linux are "key" words they look for.


Regards,

Jon
>>> Mike <mjwestkamper at weiinc.com> 02/13/00 17:23 PM >>>
How about we forment a shoot out. Something like the Winston Cup..

I provide identical hardware platforms.

Leading proponents of Linux and Windows must gen up a system from CD's I purchase
over-the-counter. They have one day to gen the system. We run a set of
benchmarks. Publish the results.

The systems must serve a relational database, print server, PDC, web server, mail
server. All the tests will run via a multi-homed 100BaseT connection.

Whatcha think?

Luke Kenneth Casso Leighton wrote:

> > > for the record, i have to say that i am as impressed by nt5's reliability
> > > (except from the black screen of death) as i am dismayed by nt4's ability
> > > to be shut down, terminated with extreme prejudice etc, in
> > > approximately... 200 different ways that i could code up, if i could be
> > > botherered do.
> >
> > I'd just like to make it known just how *hard* I am trying not to add my
>
> the rules apply to me as well as anyone else.  which is why i said what i
> said (above).  my general ethic is, be honest and unreserved.  if
> justifiable harrassement on a technical point porduces results, spend an
> equal amount of time praising the results.
>
> luke





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