Gates is using doublespeak of course. What I think gates alluding to is
this: When a single server goes down, another machine needs to take it's
place seemlessly.
This is no more a unix problem than an nt problem (in fact it's more a nt
problem since nt is less reliable). But, both people have come up with
workable schemes for a lot of systems (www.deja.com for linux,
www.yahoo.com for bsd, www.microsoft.com for nt). These are all clusters
of machines with no single point of failure (assuming I understand their
setups correctly).
If he's claiming that microsoft is beating the unix world in doing this
straight out of the box, he's either lying of very misguided (prolly the
former).
namaste,
Mark
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, J.W. Scott wrote:
> I guess Bill is disillusioned enough to think that M$'s single point of
> failure is that it didn't heed the old warning about those who don't know
> Unix being doomed to recreate it poorly. But I don't see how any level of
> disillusionment could possibly let a person think that W2K (it's proper
> name) could make reparations for this...Then again, I'm probably just
> being a disillusioned linux zealot.
> jw
> (PS: VNC is really cool! Go AT&T!)
>
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> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brandon W. Beasley wrote:
>
> > Gates uttered the following Newspeak at the Dell ego support group
> > yesterday:
> >
> > "[Windows 2000] should eliminate the UNIX single point of failure
> > issue."
> >
> > What the hell does that mean? "UNIX single point of failure"?
> >
> > Is that the lack of a unified UNIX platform? Or what?
> >
> > Yours truly,
> >
> > The Uninitiated.
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