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To: pragat who wrote (5727)	11/19/1997 12:37:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>SUNs Starfire (Ultra Enterprise 10000) is making significant inroads as the computing power shifts toward the back-end. How much of Starfire's success is attributable to the consolidation of smaller Sun boxes? How much of it is attributable to replacing IBM RS6000's (that REALLY have scalability problems)? (Serious question.) What really counts is gaining market share--not just increased sales. I saw some charts in early summer that showed UNIX market share dropping about a percentage point during the previous 12 months and NT gaining about 25% (from almost zero) during that period. NT was taking its market share from Novell. >What kind of mission critical systems are you talking about ? Could you provide some metrics ? size, #of users, and soforth. What I can tell you is the US Dept of Defense is implementing a worldwide messaging system where the agencies participating in the system may choose between Notes, SMTP, and Exchange as their messaging systems. USAir Force and USArmy are going for Exchange in a big way. I know of some large networks in the space program with over 4,000 Windows/NT and Mac clients using NT servers as application and file servers. What seems to be happening is that the Unix systems are stuck in the engineering nich and NT is taking over the general purpose and administrative systems nich. Those are just my own personal observations and may not reflect the general trend, particularly in the commercial (versus government) market place. (Ya' know, I am getting a bit tired of hearing my self talk, so I am declaring a moratorium on myself. You guys and gals talk about this and I will just listen for a while.)

To: pragat who wrote (5727)	11/19/1997 1:16:00 AM
From: Kal	Respond to of 64865

>>he current version (enterprise edition) of NT still has ways to go in terms of addressing key technical issues (scalability, clustering, load balancing, et.al) You forgot a very improtant point: having to reboot after every install of any software or change of the configuration.