>but, don't you feel that some customer confusion will arise since
>what the customer has heard in the past from SGI sales is how bad NT
>is, how it will never work, and MS is an unethical monopoly? Now
>suddenly, they expect the customer to shift and believe that NT will
>work,
a) There are two different 'the customers' in that phrase, and you keep equating them, though we keep telling you they aren't the same.
There will be overlap: there are applications where you don't give a jot about the OS, as long as it manages memory, opens files, and lets you draw things -- in OpenGL, of course.
But there will also be 'the customer (1)' who will keep buying IRIX/MIPS machines because they're better for him (e.g., notably because he likes floating point performance, or wants an excellent scheduler, or large memories, or whatever); as there will also be new 'the customer (2)' people who buy NT machines now and will switch to SGI once SGI has an NT product, because it'll be better than the other NT products for him.
How many different ways do we have to see 'the NT product is going to be an addition to the existing product line' spelled?
> NT maybe isn't so bad after all.
It keeps getting better, but your mileage may vary. There's not a hair on my head (there are some left ;) ) that would think about running a web server on NT *now*, not even on a small Intel box; and I wouldn't like to run anything like a CAE finite element package that does lots of I/Os on NT either. May change in the future, but we'll have to see, won't we? I'm sure the products SGI targets at the NT marketplace will be selected to fall into the space NT is at least decent in.
>You've got to admit that an employee stating that NT crashes every
>other time he uses it
Are you sure that was an SGI employee?
>Yet somehow we are supposed to feel warm and fuzzy buying an NT
>product from them
Stop pretending we're all borgs and part of an SGI monolithical conscience. I'm pretty sure that some *IRIX* engineers will think NT suck, and that some will probably not be less NT-savvy than others, but that doesn't mean the people working on NT don't know NT. In fact, there are some NT components that some SGI people know more about than anyone else in the world.
anyway, all the SGI employees on this forum represent themselves. You may think some of them have poor judgment on some areas, but unless that area falls under their jurisdiction, I wouldn't worry about that, unless you can point me to a computer manufacturer that has turned all employees into god-like creatures knowledgeable about Everything (if you know one, tell me ;) ). |
