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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12390)	11/19/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Michelle, NT is NOT an enterprise OS, has NEVER BEEN an enterprise OS, and NEVER WILL BE an enterprise OS. Large-scale end-users don't trust it enough to even put there mid-level critical data on it. NT is limited to the workgroup market, largely in competition with NOVL, and that's it. M$FT has never had the RAS that is necessary to compete with any Unix vendor for critical applications. They aren't going anywhere w/NT and are going to be aced out by Novell & Linux, both of which are faster, more relible, and cheaper to buy and maintain. BTW: TPC benchmarks may not mean much to you, but they are 1 determinant of who gets the sale & who walks. The fact that NT TPC benchmarks aren't at the top of the heap is the least of M$FT's problems, however. They have to worry about keeping the thing from crashing all the time first.... BTW(2): Maybe Gates will insist on embedding IE in NT and introducing an unacceptable security problem that will finally tank the project for good... cheers, cherylw

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