Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:40:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions? NT VS UNIX, NT SUCKS SOMETIMES Message-ID: <199607192240.PAA06649@seabass.progroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199607171610.JAA05923@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Jul 17, 96 09:10:54 am
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> > > > ><soapbox> > >I'm still trying to understand why people think they have to run NT. > >There are other options, like FreeBSD and OS/2. A lot cheaper and not > >made by Microsoft. > ></soapbox> > > Because NT is a very solid server OS. It is tightly integrated with > the most popular application server software, Microsoft BackOffice. > It is *the* most stable OS I have run. It scales well across multiple > CPUs, and has a very solid multi-processor and multi-threaded kernel. > NT 4.0 will have not only dynamically scheduled threads, but user- blah, blah, blah, on and on .... del ...... Ok, NT is better than windog 3.1 and wingding95. I am working on a project that uses NT 3.51 backends for a proprietary database that was built for use on win95/NT. These backends are connected to a Sparcstation 5 running Solaris 2.5. You can see this in action by going to the home page at http://www.familytreemaker.com/. About half way down is something called "Family Finder Index". This is a cgi program that gets data from the NT's and puts it into a web page. The NT's work ok until something unforseen happens. Back in April we had a power outage. The Sparc rebooted automatically and all of the rc scripts started all of the background daemons and everything worked. No humans needed. The NT's sat there and refused to run anything until some user logged in! Apparently there is no way to have a program automatically run unless you log in and then you have something in that little "start" window. Nice design for a *server*! I guess if someone uses NT for a server and the power goes down in the middle of the night, then *someone* will have to be there to log in and start all of the server processes. (snort, snicker, guffaw, ;^) (There may be a fix for this in service pak 4! :^) -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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