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To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (3472)	11/6/1997 8:40:00 PM
From: Klaus B. Biggers	Read Replies (2) of 14451

>First my belief (and I'm sure Justin's) is that any NT product SGI >builds will be of the best quality, rich technology, and excellent >performance for the market space it's in. It may be that we are >unhappy with the quality of the operating system from... <rest of excellent explanation snipped> John: Thanks for the excellent response. I think you have summarized it well. And thanks for the level headed nature as well. Your comments on this thread are always well thought out and civil unlike many others who simply cast off any question which doesn't worship SGI and denounce MS. Your points in this post make a lot of sense, but, don't you feel that some customer confusion will arise since what the customer has heard in the past from SGI sales is how bad NT is, how it will never work, and MS is an unethical monopoly? Now suddenly, they expect the customer to shift and believe that NT will work, it'll save the company, and collaboration with "the enemy" is a good thing. NT bashing has been a popular sport on most of the SGI technical mailing lists as well as newsgroups and now suddenly they reverse and state that NT maybe isn't so bad after all. You've got to admit that an employee stating that NT crashes every other time he uses it when SGI is trying to "execute, market, etc." an NT strategy is foolish at best. I can tell you from experience (all the way back from personal iris 4D20 or some such days up through the RE3 I work on now) as well as working on NT the last few years that such comments certainly don't shine a good light on the company since it merely points out the religious fanatisism some people have pro/con certain technologies. And my NT box stays up a lot longer than that 4D20 did. Comments such as that referenced above tells anyone that does know NT that that employee knows very little about it and is unwilling to learn. Yet somehow we are supposed to feel warm and fuzzy buying an NT product from them. And just for the record, I have no position in SGI. -klaus

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