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To: Tony Viola who wrote (94574)	12/24/1999 10:05:00 PM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Maybe because Microsoft just sucks. :) All sarcasm aside, Win 2000 will make some progress against Sun/Solaris boxes... but for mission critical apps, most people will still recommend Unix & Oracle databases for its reliability and super-scalability.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (94574)	12/28/1999 7:54:00 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: "What you say is true but the goal of Windows 2000 is to change all that. If Sun could catch IBM, why can't Wintel catch Sun?" Hi Tony, Hope you had a good holiday. Re: Sun/Wintel. Great topic. Excellent question. An IT person from one of the top datafarm co.s publicly said Win2000 has made significant improvements to the NT platform. The key question is: how much improvement and is it enough? He seemed to think it was a good,solid product. I would be happy to hear if other IT folks share his viewpoint. It'll be interesting to see if Win2000 is the release which will take off in the Enterprise. However, the Unix/Linux remote capabilities are (maybe now 'were'?) better, which is in part why some dotcoms use Sun, but does this change with Win2000? Regards, Amy J