From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 29 08:27:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA09788 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA09782 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id KAA02017; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:27:41 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199708291527.KAA02017@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated... In-Reply-To: <19970829011410.35329@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from Peter Korsten at "Aug 29, 97 01:14:10 am" To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:27:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Korsten said: > > So, Pedro, get out of your ivory tower and check your facts before > you start making statements from other people's experience. There's > a world out there that's using these products. You may not like it, > but you can't get around it either. > > I know I'm sounding like 'Amazing Discoveries' here. I'm not a > Microsoft advocate - far from that - but I think there's a lot of > either ignorance or blindsightness about this firm and it's products > in the Unix world. > I am a "people" who also has worked with NT (and is an NT developer.) All I can say is that on the vast majority of hardware that I have seen, NT just cannot hack a reasonable load. Also, the machines at the place where I used to work would crash quite regularly running both an interactive (low pressure production load), and also during development. We are talking top-notch hardware here, like ASUS MB's, top of the line HP machines, SuperMicro MB's, etc. I don't know of ONE machine that didn't crash (fairly often). This is on Pentiums, PPros, and 486's, with or without parity or ECC memory. BTW, that is at a company that STILL newly decides to use NT as their main desktop OS... Go figure? Sounds like a ringing endorsement of mediocre software. Sounds like the "pointy haired boss" liked the pretty colors. I am not unbiased, but the above anecdotal evidence is accurate. -- John dyson@iquest.net