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To: tiquer who wrote (17372)	6/27/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (2) of 64865

Hmmm and a fsck fail on / doesn't force you to re-install Solaris ? I've used both environs extensively. Believe it or not 95/98/NT are very stable on the desktop. Also in low to mid size file/print/web/DB serving NT does the job just fine. People buy Solaris/UNIX expecting much better uptime/reliability when in reality there is very little difference now. Even if the un-truth of 5-9's uptime on Solaris versus 3-9's on NT we are talking a matter of 8 real hours more uptime: 8751 versus 8759. As we see at EBAY and other large server installs these boxes need to go down for 4-8 hours a week anyways for maintenance/backup and a reboot to clean things up. Therefore 5-9's versus 3-9's are for the marketing folks not for IT professionals that understand these numbers. Cheers James

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