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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: keithsha who wrote (59911)	7/16/2001 7:21:13 PM
From: alydar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<<Do you form your opinions from magazine articles and chat rooms?>> hey buddy. products do not win on technical merit but on mindshare. technically, apple computer was 10 years ahead of msft before win95. big deal. msft was still able to create the worlds most illegal monopoloy by gaining mindshare. rocky

To: keithsha who wrote (59911)	7/17/2001 2:16:45 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Motorola delivers a high availability Linux for use in 99,999% uptime solutions. motorola.com IBM delivered a mainframe to Telia, running Linux. 5 nines. Does Microsoft support 99,999% uptime on Windows 2000 Data Center server if you wrote the application? No. Does it guarantee service uptime, no matter how much hackers attack it? No. Customers don't want contractual uptime on a part of their solution. They want it on the entire solution, including the application that has been written for them. The main reason why Linux is generally not contracted to 5 nines availability, is because a reboot takes longer than 5 minutes, unless you are using source-code that is only a couple of years old for the file system. But as experience grows with XFS, RaiserFS etc., this will probably improve. On this link: www2.linuxjournal.com you can see an overview of two real-time spacecraft control applications for spacecraft and why these mission critical applications are being run on Linux. Lars.