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To: Mike Milde who wrote (10393)	8/29/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Mike - I have worked in a mixed environment with Sun, HP, and Intel based servers and workstations since the late 80's. I have done driver development under both Solaris and HP-UX as well as OS/2, Netware and NT on the Intel boxes. We have many NT based systems that require almost no maintenance, and at least 2 that have run for more than a year without a reboot. I have had more difficulty with crashes on the Solaris 2.6 systems than with either the HP-UX or NT systems even though the job mix on the sun boxes is more constrained. I know many people who have had similar experience. Solaris is a reasonably competent OS but not as good as either HP-UX or DEC Unix for reliability or stability at least in my experience. And a well-managed NT system can have good stability and reliability, although not while doing every damn-fool thing that users (or MSFT) might suggest. I am not a cheerleader for MSFT or a Solaris basher but on the other hand some of the nonesense cheryl comes up with would make even the average marketing hack gag. There is so little intersection between the markets where Solaris does well and those where NT does well that these kinds of comparisons are kind of in the Jeep versus Miata category. 'My jeep can go straight through that cow pasture! can your miata do that?'

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