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To: John Mireley who wrote (2)	10/15/1996 6:47:00 PM
From: James A. Minnick Jr.	of 100

NT replacing UNIX might happen. These other guys better get running or it will happen. I work at a Hi-tech software simulation company that is currently migrating many of our simulation products to NT. These simulators are custom simulators costing in the millions of dollars. LINUX competing with NT is not questionable in my opinion. LINUX is free, unsupported S/W. Any company willing to invest millions of dollars in unsupported S/W is CRAZY. Who do you call when you have a million dollar account due for delivery next week and you machine is acting strangly ??? If you look at the numbers now, NT is steadily gaining market share on UNIX. NT has only been available about four years now and the numbers are already high. NT can be placed on many different Hardware platforms. The same application S/W can be recompiled with minimal problems (thats a relative term) and be placed on each of these platforms. Currently NT can run on INTEL, DEC ALPHA, MIPS4000. NT is designed so that it may be expanded to other Hardware platforms. Yes - UNIX can do all of the above, but the User commands vary between machines - forcing the user to know certain commands for each Hardware platform. This is an expensive traing procedure that NT eliminates. On NT, regardless of H/W platform you run on, User commands are the same. Also, NT machines are cheap. A 200 Mhz Pentium Pro machine modestly loaded runs no more that $5000. What does a Silicon Graphics, Sun or other cost ?? I'm not sure but I'll bet they start at $8000. Sure you can get Linux or SCO Unix to run on the Pentium Pro, but then what applications do you get ??? None worthy to a novice user - that is for sure. Don't get me wrong. Unix will have a place in the market for many years to come. I am an Unix developer as well as NT. I have seen both sides. Very high end graphics applications are not currently available in NT as they are with Silicon Graphics machines. But even this is changing. The key to all of this is COST. Microsoft gives you 80% of what UNIX provides at 20 % of the COST. And in the United States, the dollar rules !!!!

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