From the techweb.com Unix Won't Be Muscled Out By NT
(02/10/98; 4:10 p.m. EST)
By Lee Pender, Computer Reseller News
Although Windows NT is gaining momentum, it will not extinguish
Unix as a high-end operating system for at least several more years,
according to analysts speaking at the Giga Information Group IT
Research Exchange conference.
Rich Fichera, vice president of Giga, said Unix and NT will continue
to co-exist until Microsoft can prove NT 5.0 is a stable product
capable of performing as a high-end OS.
Jack Crawford, senior vice president and chief information officer of
the Hartford Insurance Group, in Hartford, Conn., agreed that NT
often does not meet enterprise scalability requirements. "That is the
issue that has got to be fixed," he said.
The move to NT is being fueled largely by non-technology
executives caught up in NT's marketing hype, Fichera said.
Robert Kiebel, new technology architect at Service Merchandise, in
Brentwood, Tenn., said the move to NT within his organization has
been spurred primarily by IT staffers who say they need NT to run
certain applications.
Kiebel said Service Merchandise is moving to NT, but will continue
to run mission-critical applications on the Unix platform.
Fichera also said NT's move into the high-end space might be
slowed by Microsoft's own desire to capitalize on the potential high
sales volume in other market segments. "The Microsoft financial
engine is fed by the low end," he said.
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