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To: JDN who wrote (40267)	1/11/2001 5:56:03 AM
From: High-Tech East	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Good morning JDN - four posts in a row here expressing a sense of humor (ok, attempting a sense of humor <g>) - amazing - before 5 AM - totally amazing. By the way, I like Dubya's new nick name ... THE SHRUB (you know, a small bush) ... :>)) Ken ... I actually had to wait 10 seconds for a delayed reaction from a couple of people the other day ... and no, I did not make it up ... I read it somewhere ... wish I had!

To: JDN who wrote (40267)	1/11/2001 7:29:32 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Doesn't look like a done deal but Unisys is announcing it will be supplying the US with a new voting system. Using Dell hardware and Microsoft software. biz.yahoo.com Looks more like a product announcement than a contract announcement.

To: JDN who wrote (40267)	1/11/2001 1:19:44 PM
From: Robert	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear JDN, you're absolutely right.... Steve Lee goes to extreme lengths to justify NT over Linux, whose arguments can all be used to justify Solaris over NT: 1) NT more secure than Linux (false) as Linux has never been submitted to C2 classification which NT4.0 does not have, only NT3.5 and trusted Solaris. 2) License being a minor issue despite the sum of 100,000 * $200 = two extra E10K's 3) Other costs, like 5000 extra system administrators per 20 NT cluster when 2 would be enough for two E10K's. 4) Avoiding the issue of economic efficiency by passing the buck: "the process to decide to use NT was completed before my company was involved....". 5) Innocence by ignorance: "I am just working....". The only creditable argument that he has may be that a web based infrastructure may now work over a WAN, which is only as creditable as saying the architecture was designed to work under high throughput and reliability. This is what happens with multimeg office components running amok inside the government.