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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ToySoldier who wrote (28363)	8/18/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Cisco and Ink took a lot of heat from the ISP vendors for not participating in the Bake-off and the only ones who discredited it were those that did not participate. Its funny that MSFT's solution was not in the list either. It would have been more funny if they participated. Cisco and INKT were not the only ones not to participate. NTAP and CacheFlow chose not to also. The benchmark was discredited because the major players did not participate. Back channel conversations gave evidence as to why they chose, which had to do with the nature of the benchmark itself. I know you are attempting to discredit the most serious attempt in the industry so far at identifying the best Caching solution, but your comments go in the same pile as those like Cisco and INK that cried sour milk when they knew they couldnt compete. You know no such thing. I am questioning your (their) NOVL's claim that theirs is the best or the fastest or whatever solution. The benchmark has been discredited already, but not by me. You are cheerleading, Toy. Go back to the NOVL thread for that. editor's note: more cheerleading By the way - since you seem to know so much about the skewed testing process, exactly what components in the bake-off were tainted? Why were vendors like IBM in the testing if they knew the process was flawed? Quit with the sour grapes and admit that your so-called big caching players have been exposed for what their products are truly limited to. PS - MSFT can't even hope to play in this field as long as NT is the base OS for the Caching engine. I don't know. I don't know. You don't know. Have I mentioned MSFT at any point in this conversation? I agree, NT will never be a serious caching platform, nor will UNIX, nor will any general purpose OS.