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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (12417)	11/20/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) of 74651

cheryl - You are drifting away from rational discussion again. I spent years working with SunOS and Solaris - those puppies have lots of holes too. Sun of course has its operating system heritage in the Berkeley version of Unix, as fielded by Bill Joy and Andy Bechtolsheim. This was essentially an academic project with no pretensions to any industrial strength OS heritage. To quote one of Sun's founders, Vinod Khosla , we could not design a product line that was as broad and varied as what Hewlett Packard or Digital Equipment could do. NT is the direct descendent of the operating systems which defined 'industrial strength', designed by the same guy who did VMS and RSX. Your claim that there is some magic that makes an OS based on a university project better than one designed from the ground up to do the big jobs is either deceptive or just ill-informed. Sun has had 15 years to refine their OS, starting from a base which was already 10 years old when Sun was founded. NT is not yet 5 years old. In another year or 2 it will have more capability and robustness than Solaris and will rival the best high-availability systems out there today. It is no accident that MSFT has done a deal to acquire Tandem NSK technology for NT - NSK has demonstrated availability more than 100 times better than Solaris. There are Tandem systems which have run without interruption for more than 18 years. 18 years without a second of downtime. Enjoy your Sun position while you can - my belief is that they are about to get their a$$ kicked.

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