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To: Thomas M. who wrote (57540)	5/7/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) of 1571681

<If this statement were true, why would so many IT pros be switching to the legendarily unreliable Windows NT from Unix?> I asked some coworkers the same question, because at first it sounded counterproductive to me. The switch from UNIX to Windows NT goes along the same lines as the switch from RISC to Xeon. Xeon is a huge price/performance advantage over RISC workstations. The only thing RISC brings now to the table is experience when it comes to RAS. The big RISC boys have been in this game for quite a while, and Xeon is just a newcomer in comparison. Now I don't know how unreliable NT can be when it comes to enterprise servers, but Paul posted a link yesterday which shows that Nasdaq just ordered a bunch of Unisys NT systems based on Pentium III Xeon: newsalert.com So if Nasdaq entrusts their critical operations to run on Windows NT, I guess that says a lot about the RAS of the oft-criticized operating system. Tenchusatsu

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