Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 15:14:52 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can someone explain this nonsense? Message-ID: <19980531151452.C11196@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <199805312140.PAA25499@const.>; from allen campbell on Sun, May 31, 1998 at 03:40:43PM -0600 References: <199805312140.PAA25499@const.>
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On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 03:40:43PM -0600, allen campbell wrote: > Why does the trade press get all gushy when NT manages to acquire > functionality that server operating systems have had for years? I can answer that in one word, Baaaaa! The trade press have turned into sheep being herded around by barking dogs. If you remember back to Bill's NT demo in New York 18 months ago, he stood up on stage and said, "This NT system is doing a million transactions per second". Not one of the sheep stood up and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Gates, What's a transaction?" > I'm sorry for posting this; it doesn't relate directly to FreeBSD, > but sometimes this crap gets to me. Case in point: > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980529S0026 > [ DELETED ] Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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