I've been watching this for a while, and have to throw my 2 cents in. We're
a bank in NYC, and use a combination of Solaris, NT, and other free UNIX
variants. It's been my experience that the biggest problem with NT is
inferior hardware. We've had 2 Digital (Compaq) AlphaServers up for about 2
years now - without a single crash. The only times I've needed to reboot
have been to change certain system settings. I've had several other Intel
based servers up for about that long - with no problems. You have to spend
money on good hardware if you want to run NT properly.
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Subject: RE: Why not NT
> I agree with Stewart. We had Solaris server as well as NT systems.
> We generally have NT crashing or need of rebooting ...but in case of
Solaris
> we rarely need rebooting. I rate Solaris and even HP-ux performance better
> than NT. Early of this year we observe power problems in our office. We
> found NT crashing many times but Solaris never.
>
> Sanjeev
>
>
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> From: Stewart Dean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 4:42 AM
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> Subject: RE: Why not NT
>
>
> I have been watching this go by with some delight......but foolishly
> didn't collect it. If there's someone that did and has the 'full story',
> would you please send it to me?
>
> We had our own fun with NT on a web server (which IS did not run,
> but was informally managed)....it would crash 1-3 times a week. The
> kiss-off came when the web server....which is the official Admissions
> window-to-the-world crashed over a weekend....then a prospective
> student couldn't get on but thought the address was wrong and so
> went poking around until they found the college newspaper web
> page (on another server, Unix, which we serve).
> Now our college is a *very* free-spirited place and makes a point of
> freedom-of-everything, never mind freedom-of-speech...and this
> prospective fresh-person poked around further and came across the
> S&M page on an old issue.
> Result: The detonation was awesome. We are assuming
> responsibility for the web server and installing Solaris on it.
> The S&M page? It stays.....freedom-of-speech.
> // "I build my cars to go, not to stop", Ettore Bugatti
> // Stewart Dean Kingston, NY
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