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. It amazes me that people are still trying to use NT
> > for *anything*, but I guess there are always sheep following
> > the marketeers instead of technical excellence (in the 80's, it
> > was DEC; in the 70's, it was IBM).
>
> 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 regards UNIX as out of date and old technology, and NT as the future.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!)
Frank - on what basis are you making this assessment? PC Magazine?
Surveys? Stuff in the press "down under"?
How much is a result of MS "mkting hype"?
>
> >
> > Happily, there is Linux, which runs on the same hardware and blows
> > the doors off NT, not unlike a Formula 1 car lined up against a Yugo.
>
> Unfortunately, most IT managers, CIOs, etc that I've spoken with don't
> seem to have even heard of it. They know the various commercial flavours
> of Unix - Solaris, AIX, etc - but not Linux.
Concur with Frank on the OS -- HPUX is used widely here in Boeing -
Solaris less so. Linux? Nada.
On a related note -- the Gartner group recently did an analysis of
Apache -- which was pretty well done for a consulting firm that tends to
support commercial software.
Kathy
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