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Technology Stocks : MSFT: Will NT kill SUN, HP and IBM?
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To: jim kelley who wrote (9)10/19/1996 7:56:00 PM
From: Dan Guinan   of 100
 
Jim, if you read my message completely, you would have seen that the purpose of my disclosure of the dual-Pentium NT configuration that am using was to point out NT's in-efficiencies. A 266mhz dual-pentium NT 4.0 system with performance characteristics that are lower than a 60mhz pentium system running Linux is an important point to make.

Obviously, I could contiune to throw more and more exotic hardware at the NT operating system until it eventually overtakes the puny 60mhz Pentium running Linux. The point is, if NT was worth it's salt, you wouldn't have to use 400mhz of Pentium Pro horsepower to overcome the operating system inneficiencies and outperform a puny little 60mhz Pentium Linux system.

Although I do not have a solaris machine in my office, I have used Solaris x86 and it seems to perform similar to what I have seen from Linux. I am naturally inclined to believe that on equal hardware, Solaris x86 (from Sun) would grossly outperform NT.

But performance is not what counts. What counts is that NT is not "OPEN". NT and the servers that run on it (for the most part) are proprietary "traps". Moving to NT is a very large commitment - once you go down that path, there is no turning back. For this reason, and this reason alone (IS managers will not bet their companies on one vendor's product if they can avoid it.), NT will not gain dominance in the enterprise.

Dan Guinan
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