ANTI-TREND: NT SERVER DOESN'T TAKE OVER THE ENTERPRISE. herring.com
Who could imagine? The ilk have infiltrated that capitalist bastion J.P. inadvertently sent me off to.
Microsoft hopes to conquer the third tier with NT 5.0 (now in beta). NT 5.0 will be better, but so will next year's Unix. Network computing will always demand a leading edge of very fast, scalable, reliable multiuser systems. So far, Unix has retained that edge. When, if ever, NT will catch up is anyone's guess. It won't be 1998.
Of course, NT5 seems to have a somewhat remote chance of shipping in '98; maybe there'll be another beta though. NT5B2: the enterprise beta?
But, I have to admit another mistake. Sal is right, Hydra went beta at Comdex, I missed that. The indefinite slip on NT5 there, a month after the line was "we bet the company on it" diverted my attention. At any rate, it seems like it was something less that a full-scale beta, closed distribution of 1000 and strict non-disclosure, there's been no word on how it works that I could find. Somewhat in contrast to the first NT5 beta. Hope it worked better than that last.
Cheers, Dan. |
