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To: Steve Lee who wrote (33203)	6/29/2000 1:31:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Re: Microsoft hating aside, and from a purely technical viewpoint, why would this be risky? Can you name the risks and assign a level of risk to them? Steve, Downtime, nuf said. Depending on the use of the server, downtime could be up to $1,000,000 per hour. From a technical viewpoint, Windows is unstable. There are many, many, many problems. It's not as simple as one problem, if it was, Microsoft would've fixed it years ago. But I continue to get "blue screens of death" at least a few times a week. My computer isn't even used as a server either!!! I recently worked on a project where we replaced NT servers with AS/400's. There site was so unstable due to memory leakage that as a last resort, they decided to restart their servers at 3am Pacific time to prevent crashes during the daytime. Too bad they were a Japanese company, because its the middle of the day there at 3am pacific. If you're global, there's no good time for downtime. Actually, NT servers are so unstable that IBM ships its Netfinity line with the option of a piece of software that will automatically restart your servers. You set up the time and frequency, it does the rest. This prevents you from having to have your IT guy go in at 3am to restart the servers. chic

To: Steve Lee who wrote (33203)	6/29/2000 1:41:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

It is one of stability. My own experience using Windows NT shows me it is not as stable as Solaris. Perhaps Alcatel engineers have enough experience with their design (ie load balancing, clustering etc) to over come any significant down time due to a server stability problem. Remember, this particular application runs an enterprises entire phone and data systems. Therefore, if it goes down, all the phones are dead! Why do most of these vendors utilize Solaris OS? Based on my observations at the show, every new application offered used 90% SOLARIS and 10% other (HP Openview, Windows NT). From what I saw, there were few if any (other than Alcatel) that designed their system around Windows NT servers. There were options from vendors to use Windows NT as client machines. I was quite surprised to see how dominant SUNW's products are used by this emerging industry, specifically SPARC servers and SOLARIS OS. I guess the industry is using systems that they feel are (1) the most stable in mission critical operations and (2) can scale up to meet the overall network (POT) demand. EKS PS Remember that a lot of this new technology will not be deployed for another 12-18 months. The show is a snap shop of what will be available to the telcom industry in the near future.