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To: Steven White who wrote (5537)	11/12/1997 10:51:00 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

True Story Some people moved from the area where I work to a new area. When they came back to get some of their stuff, one of them said. "Why is it that I can move my UNIX workstation from one place to another and it boots straight up, while my NT desktop is hosed. I guess I'm just a UNIX bigot" Someone else moving in said " Maybe you are, but you are right.". Both people are computer professionals. Just a small anecdote, but I wonder how many times is this happening? BTW, the UNIX box in question is a Sun Sparc 20 running Solaris 2.5.1.

To: Steven White who wrote (5537)	11/12/1997 10:52:00 PM
From: pragat	Respond to of 64865

Steve: You may want to read the November 3, 1997, article in the information week magazine: "Enterprise Edition of NT Server Falls Short". The following issues are outlined in that article: 1) Limited scalability 2) No support for failover 3) Lack of a name server for locating distributed resources 4) No support for automatic load balancing 5) Uncertainity surrounding the direction of MSMQ:Message Queue Server 6) Clustering limitations 7) Limited fault-tolerance 8) Limited support for BackOffice Suite (in a clustered environment) 9) Mandatory requirement to use certified MSCS-compliant for the servers, shared RAID, SCSI adapters, and network adapters 10)Lack of a projected release date for NT Server 5.0 If you're a good engineer, these issues certainly do matter.