Brett Lorenzen said:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Frank Lee wrote:
> > Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > >
> > > No surprise there. I'd say that attempting to deploy NT for
> > > any kind of mission-critical (oh, *man*, did I just use a buzzword?!)
> > > application is grounds for charges of professional incompetence and
> > > negligence.
> >
> > Interestingly, research in this market shows that most of the IT market
> > regards UNIX as out of date and old technology, and NT as the future.
> > (Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger!)
>
> Probably goes hand-in-hand with the fact that the large % of IT geeks now
> are MBAs with tech focus, and not CS's with some business knowledge. :P
As (it seems) every high-level IT rag is saying, there is a shortage
of qualified IT professionals in the job market today. While this is
great for the career advancement of the IT professionals out there,
it also creates somewhat of a downward spiral. In an effort to (a)
create systems that don't require overly specialized support, and
(b) provide quick ramp-up for new hires when turnover is high, most
IT management is turning to NT. Why? Its a commodity item with
vendor support. The fact that rebooting and 30% of the other
administrative tasks can be performed by relatively non-tech or
fresh-tech personnel is an added benefit. One day, Linux or Solaris
may meet those requirements and the landscape will change.
I use UNIX heavily and know that it still has a place. That's a bitter
pill that MS must swallow; you might even get them to admit it. Case
in point: our NT servers (with a 4-digit user base) were crashing
left and right. We swapped hardware, reloaded OSs, you name it.
Finally, we called in the big guns: Microsoft support. The first
thing they said: "Do you mean you are running your mail, print, and
file services all off the same host?!? Split them up!". We did, and
the crash problems went away and life was good. Funny though: we could
run all services (and more) on a UNIX [or Novell] box... NT is good.
I use it. It has problems, but its not as bad as Rich hints (we run
several mission-critical apps on it, just not *too* many :).
These kinds of stories don't make it to the MS promotional glossies;
instead, all is rosey. NT is new (and therefore good). UNIX is old
and 'bad'. With the MS marketing juggernaut, how could the IT market
(especially the Dilbertian management) not view it any other way?
--bill
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