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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Steve Lee who wrote (33203)6/29/2000 1:41:00 PM
From: E_K_S  Read Replies (3) of 64865
 
It is one of stability. My own experience using Windows NT shows me it is not as stable as Solaris. Perhaps Alcatel engineers have enough experience with their design (ie load balancing, clustering etc) to over come any significant down time due to a server stability problem. Remember, this particular application runs an enterprises entire phone and data systems. Therefore, if it goes down, all the phones are dead!

Why do most of these vendors utilize Solaris OS? Based on my observations at the show, every new application offered used 90% SOLARIS and 10% other (HP Openview, Windows NT). From what I saw, there were few if any (other than Alcatel) that designed their system around Windows NT servers. There were options from vendors to use Windows NT as client machines.

I was quite surprised to see how dominant SUNW's products are used by this emerging industry, specifically SPARC servers and SOLARIS OS. I guess the industry is using systems that they feel are (1) the most stable in mission critical operations and (2) can scale up to meet the overall network (POT) demand.

EKS

PS Remember that a lot of this new technology will not be deployed for another 12-18 months. The show is a snap shop of what will be available to the telcom industry in the near future.
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