You definitely have a strong point. I would say very good hardware. Very often
comparisons are made with Wintel clones and Unix on HP, Sun, Alpha, etc... with 10
times the price. Very often in the PC world we tend to spend less money on good
hardware than in the higher end. I have most of all my clients on IBM Netfinity
machines (with either NT or NetWare or SCO) and I must say that problem calls on the
server side are non-existent so the hardware platform is very very important in the
stability of the OS, especially NT.
Jean Morissette
Microsoft CSE
Novell Master CNE
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Lunsford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 5:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why not NT
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.
----- Original Message -----
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 11:49 AM
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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart Dean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 4:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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