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

To: dybdahl who wrote (60362)	8/4/2001 3:10:46 PM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

can you ´do server consolidation or partitioning on linux ? The trouble for McSquealy is that he'S obviously not the only one to sell mainframe features (past the hype). And with the Compaq port of Tru64 to Itanium it's gonna get real tough for 'em.

To: dybdahl who wrote (60362)	8/4/2001 3:20:40 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: Automatic patches Automatic patches work great as long as the sample size is sufficiently controlled. It's easy to get "99.99% no problem" solutions which look fine until enough sites are using it so that those one-in-ten-thousand exceptions come back to bite you. That's basically the position that Windows is in since the vast majority of Windows patches install without any problems. Again, this is the sort of scaling problem that comes from supporting a very large user base rather than anything reflecting the virtue of Red Hat or the lack thereof on MSFT's part. Give Linux enough time/success and it will discover all the pitfalls that come with scaling the user base. It comes with the territory. I agree completely that Linux is a threat to SUNW but that's a topic to take up on the SUNW thread. :)