On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 07:45:01AM +0100, Herbert Wengatz 42850 wrote:
> On the other hand, I'm happy to announce, that though here where I do
> work (a big german bank) NT was pronounced as the "strategical solution
> of the future" and there currently vast amounts of NT-freaks running
> around here and trying desperately to keep their systems alive for
> more than one week, there was a request from an internal technical
> departement for "evaluating" Linux for use in the bank. We currently
> do a lot of our work with Suns under Solaris, so there is great hope
> for the UNIX fans here, that there is a chance to get NT kicked out
> again. The odds are with us. The guys which have to do the "Evaluating"
> are "pro-Linux" as well and even wanted to "evaluate" Linux, but didn't
> dare to mention it, because the official saying was "NT, nothing else".
> Now they have got the official order to evaluate Linux! :-))))))
>
> I hope I can give you some more positive news after the evaluation is
> done!
Linux just can win. The experiences I made during my work for the other
bank (Commerzbank) which said ``NT, no matter what it costs'' (take that
verbose!) were so depressing. NT4 + sp3's IP stack is too fragile even for
workstation use. I got tons of calls from people asking why they could
loggon to ``my'' Suns or why their X Clients displayed on their NT X Server
die. Everybody complained about the poor Solaris systems - and everybody's
problem went away after rebooting NT ...
Compared with that a vanilla Linux installation out of the box is a HA
solution ...
Ralf
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