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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (63819)	12/19/2001 8:46:34 PM
From: Thomas C. Kimmel	Read Replies (1) of 74651

>>> I'm not authoritative, but I think they've probably used an assortment of hardware over the years, both for running the business and for doing software development. As I recall, I heard at the time that Windows was written using a variety of Unix on NEC machines. You may recall that Microsoft once sold a Unix lookalike called Xenix. There are reports that the back end of Hotmail still is Unix based. <<< I'm sure that you're correct, Chas. Certainly Microsoft has a great variety of computing systems. My point is this: I have heard that Microsoft has a project to replace a substantial Solaris IT infrastructure with their own technology. I would do so if it was up to me. How could they sell an enterprise customer on DataCenter if they didn't use it themselves? I don't believe that NT or SQL Server has been capable of that role in the past and I think that it will be a watershed event when they are able to provide that capability for a major corporation. As a Microsoft shareholder, I want to know how it's going. I'm sure that they haven't achieved it yet because everyone would have heard about it. We'd constantly be hearing about it. I seem to recall Sun crowing about replacing some of its IBM mainframes with its own systems, and rightly so. (I looked for a link but failed.) Maybe the Solaris part is wrong - maybe it's AIX or HP or CPQ/DEC. (I'm pretty sure it's not NEC.) Whatever. My interest is in knowing if NT/W2K/XP is ready for prime time in the enterprise market.

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