WOW!! Lot of great info from you all!!
I still think the effort to make NT scalable would have a payoff for MSFT. If my database app is growing, and my people don't have a lot of UNIX experience (and I am not enough of a sadist to really WANT to have them gain it) it would be a simpler for me to get a bigger Intel box, w/ multiple processors that could be used effectively, than to get a bunch of smaller boxes and create a bigger distributed system. if it were available.
Yeah, I'm going to have to deal with a distributed system at some level for any significant app, but I'd rather limit the amount of networking I have to deal with, since this is a much more complex and unpredictable variable for my the users to deal with.
My choice: I'd rather get bigger UNIX servers for my database than have to network dozen of little NT boxes. ORACLE is completely portable, so this dampens my UNIX pain.
IMHO, MSFT needs to make NT scalable on Intel boxes, to continue to gain market share. Solaris runs on Intel boxes, now. At our site, we have a big Solaris machine just idling in the backroom, waiting til we outgrow NT. I hate to do it, but no way do I want to deal with a dozen seprate NT boxes.
Regards,
tom |
