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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (27733)	2/14/2000 4:42:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Cheryl - So, according to your stats, W2k is well-tested and we shouldn't hear about significant outages from the customer base. Well, actually I didn't say that at all - I said that in terms of reliability, equally constrained Solaris and NT systems have similar reliability. MSFT has made some moves with Windows 2000 to add constraints to the product but it is nowhere near as tightly controlled in terms of configuration as Solaris. I would therefore expect a greater number of customer issues, even on a percentage basis. Solaris is about 2-3 years ahead of NT (at least) overall. Without some definition of "ahead", I'm not sure how to take that. Solaris has a number of features either in the current version or being tested for a future release which will probably not be in NT for years - in particular, the capabilities for dynamic allocation and configuration that QS and I were discussing earlier. And in terms of manageability, MSFT clearly has years of work to match Solaris, HP-UX or AIX, but that is Unix heritage, not anything that is particularly a part of Solaris. But in general I would not say that Solaris is "overall" years ahead... for 80% of what people do with an OS, I find it pretty much equivalent. Perhaps you could help me with some specific features or capabilities of Solaris which would take years for MS to develop, aside from the ones above? I'm not baiting you here, I think I know Solaris fairly well and there is just not a lot in features or capability in Solaris as opposed to NT that jumps out as requiring tens of thousands of man-years to accomplish.