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To: Olu Emuleomo who wrote (73672)	8/14/1999 2:14:00 AM
From: Tom Kearney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

Olu - You prove my point. One hour of downtime at $850K is very special. MOST of the world is not like this! You're a unix guy in a unix shop so you will use Unix, and will use Linux. I'm a floating Oracle consultant. At my current assignment, we have 2 or 3 unix boxes, locked off in a special room (I don't know why), attended to by a couple 'gooroos', and dozens and dozens of NT servers, more accessible, supported by a slightly larger staff of MCSE's. And we're ordering more NT servers all the time. Most of our desktops are running NT, too. The support for the Unix boxes is significanly more expensive and dear than the NT boxes. We can't even find sufficient Unix support for the few servers we have. The NT solution is so much easier to use and so much cheaper, these guys are willing to wait till NT gets tighter. This is how its been at all the sites I've worked for 3 years. This is the middle tier. I'm an Oracle guy. My vast knowledge of Unix which was once considerable, is badly eroded. I'm almost helpless, except I do remember a few vi commands to get me by, and of course man. But, NT is a snap. My only problem with NT is I don't know anything about its security, but that's what the net Admin is for. I can do everything else myself. I've never taken an NT class, or even SEEN an NT manual. I have a dozen Unix manuals gathering dust and I still had to struggle to find the command I wanted. Of course there are things we could do on Unix, that are harder on NT or impossible on NT - we do without them. When I first used Unix in 1989 on Pyramid and Sequent boxes, it crashed daily. At the same point in their evolution, NT is much more stable. Well, time will tell. Good luck to you, Tom