Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ProDeath who wrote (94625)	12/27/1999 7:25:00 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Schmandel, re: Wintel v. Sun RE: "None of this in any way should reflect on the Intel-based hardware. The Compaqs that you mention are fine devices and deserve something better than the tainted code base of NT. Perhaps Linux is a viable alternative; it certainly beats the crap out of NT when it comes to reliability and cumulative uptime." With the release of Itanium based hardware, it's my understanding that you will be able to run Unix on Intel based servers. In your opinion, will this put Intel on the same level of "reliability and manageability" as Sun? TIA, John

To: ProDeath who wrote (94625)	12/27/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Viewed as a whole, Microsoft has given its users the most labor-intensive computing architecture ever devised; it makes a joke of the term automation. --- Take a look at Windows 2000. A few things you'll find: - WSH. Windows Scripting Host provides native support for VBScript and JScript. Perl, Rexx, Python, and others are available as well. - WMI. Windows Management Instrumentation allows you to "read the meter" of almost anything running on the box, and tweak as desired. - ADSI. Active Directory Scripting Interface allows you to read/write programatically from ADSI-compliant directories (Active Directory, Exchange 5.5, etc.). These were all available in NT4 - but have been enhanced greatly in Windows 2000, and are installed by default. - Eric