Scumbria, remember the fun we had yesterday with Sun's ad using Sally Struthers? Well, NT (the Empire?) strikes back. The huge ad duJuor in the San Jose Mercury News was by IBM on NT servers. Four pages vs, three for Sun. No outrageous stuff, like using Sally, but IBM blue Armonk straight stuff.
Said NT server growth was 139% in 1997 and NT was 34% of all servers, not sure if in terms of revenues or boxes. The latter sounds high. The applications they talked about for NT were financial transaction stuff, internet, intranet, massive email networks, etc.
They quoted some performance numbers, said scalability was good and listed a few of the good availability features in their Netfinity Xeon 400 MHz line: hot pluggable/swappable PCI cards, adapters, hard drives, power supplies, 24X7 customer service, etc.
The ad also made a big deal out of the NT servers not being as powerful as UNIX ones, but the fact that they "get along" on the same networks with their own more powerful UNIX RS/6000 machines.
IBM straddling on the fence with one foot on the UNIX platform and one on NT.
Tony |
