Brett Lorenzen wrote:
> I would argue, though, IF, and only IF, you put 100% MS products on it.
> I have seen it done that way, but each and every person who claimed to
> do it with any kind of third party combinations eventually eats their
> words.
I've run all kinds of non Microsoft products on NT servers: WebBoard, Netscape
Enterprise Server, MetaInfo DNS, Sendmail, CorelDraw, etc, etc.
> They're all over. They value their time, and the time they save cutting
> corners with MS is more valuable than time spent learning Unix. This is
> what MS knows and caters to.
Agreed.
> I hate MS products, both for how they work and what they represent.
hehehe you've been talking to my partner right? I would love to have another
operating system that allowed me to run all of the off-the-shelf software that I
run. Hopefully some unix flavor will get there someday. Every year they get a
little closer, but the fact is, all those desktops are still running WIN##.
> He got back to me this afternoon, asking if he could come in with a
> Linux/PERL or Solaris/CF solution. :)
>
> And that, for me is the bottom line . . . but it's really how you value
> time and money more than anything else.
For me the decision depends on the application. If someone tells me, "I've got
a few thousand items I want in a database on the web", I'm going to put them
into Access on NT because they'll have Access on their desktop and it makes a
nice package. If someone says, "I want to be the next Ticketmaster" I'm going
to put them on Solaris with Oracle or Sybase.
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