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To: Steve Lee who wrote (37759)	2/12/2000 4:22:00 PM
From: abbigail	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Dear Mr Lee: I agree with your post. My experience tells me management wants 1. reliability 2. performance 3. efficiency 4. price The impression I get from Linux nerds, Torvalds (sp?) on down, is they really only care about #4, because the profit motive is not primary. abbigail

To: Steve Lee who wrote (37759)	2/13/2000 2:40:00 PM
From: Valley Girl	Respond to of 74651

Don't think old-paradigm IT purchasing processes, think dot-com. The nerds we're talking about are the top of the management chain! Near-term, I expect most of the lads I know will end up using Solaris, the safe choice. This is just another opinion, but the key to winning the server battle is going to be manageability, all other things (reliability, scaleability, and performance) being equal. Especially for ASPs, the ability to scale a 24x7 operation without having to keep hiring is the critical success factor. Acquisition cost of the software or hardware won't be a big factor. To me, manageability looks like the lever W2K (and perhaps Solaris x86) can use against the Linux insurgency. Oops I wrote the above and then started reading some other posts which say the same thing. Apologies, there's no way to delete a post once it's up! Anyway I agree with Abbigail.