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To: ToySoldier who wrote (11728)	10/23/1998 10:10:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	of 74651

"Real" Designers Reject Windows NT ... EE Times Online eet.com:80/story/OEG19981022S0006 Cost of ownership is an important factor, too. "By the time you factor in the system administration work that's necessary, I think the number of Unix machines per support person is higher than the number of PCs per support person. That makes the Unix platform to be lower cost overall." The support issue was also raised by Steven Swift, senior staff engineer at Fluke Corp. (Everett, Wash.), who uses Linux in his design work whenever possible. "At Fluke we spend about five times as much per Microsoft seat as for Unix seats in support costs," he said. "While I don't ever use NT, I see notices at least once a week warning of system down time," Swift said. "Our Unix systems and our bootleg Linux systems rarely go down — running for months without a single glitch." The good news for MSFT stockholders ... NT is growing. The bad news for the rest of the world ... NT is growing (and still reminds software professionals of a huge, steamy pile of excrement). The better news ... Linux ... still doubling every year. And Linux on Merced is troubling to MSFT for the long haul. Best of luck.

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