I guess I did not make myself clear either. Here is what I
intended to say: As a user of NT, you seem to be using it
NOT for "mission-critical applications" (you mention a NT server
at home, etc.) But you opine that NT is possible to be used
for mission-critical applications (without possibly being
an actual user of NT for mission-critical app., this is just
your belief, since you haven't seen it crash very often in your
environment, except under some circumstances, as well as having
some other limitations like installation of new software
requiring re-boot, scalability, etc.). This is arguably the
opinion of one user, who is not a mission-critical applications
user -> I assume, which is what I was trying to understand about
YOUR usage earlier (and not what you believe NT can handle).
On the other hand, the Standish report specifically talks about
having interviewed ACTUAL users of such applications, and have
reported their findings. Unless you choose to state that you
do not hold their research as valid, (as you suggested earlier
in that the truth is somewhere in between), in which case your
stand is somewhat like Microsoft's.
The reason I am being particular about all this is for two
reasons: one, to make it clear what mission-critical means,
which is above 99.95% uptime and nothing less. Two, to
understand exactly where NT stands today (not being a user
myself).
Krishna |
