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To: Patrick Gainer who wrote (3495)	11/9/1997 12:42:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	of 14451

Patrick - Unix is getting better but at least some implementations (including recent versions of Irix) were almost notorious for their poor quality. You probably remember the debacle with Best? 6.4 is quite solid. I'm saying this from personal experience, not as an SGI employee. As for Best, if you'd really like to talk about their unreasonable expectations and behaviour, I'd be happy to. If you can discuss this rationally (and I've not seen any evidence on this forum that the SGI employees are anything other than rabid boosters), you'll describe an objective measure with which we can benchmark the MS operating systems with others to answer charges like yours. How about number of sustained users vs uptime, or load average vs. uptime? How about TPM numbers? How about a realistic TCOO for any number of users above 5? There are some things that NT does well. Parts of their threads implementation are wonderful. I just get irritated when people say that it's 'enterprise ready', because my personal opinion is that is not. It's not much better than MSFT's typical 'good enough software'. -justinb

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