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To: Tom Kearney who wrote (393)	12/5/1997 1:58:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

I still think the effort to make NT scalable would have a payoff for MSFT. If my database app is growing, and my people don't have a lot of UNIX experience (and I am not enough of a sadist to really WANT to have them gain it) it would be a simpler for me to get a bigger Intel box, w/ multiple processors that could be used effectively, than to get a bunch of smaller boxes and create a bigger distributed system. if it were available. There is a good article in Information Week a couple of weeks ago about the cost of managing NTs. The upfront cost of buying NT is cheaper relative to UNIX, but then, the article explains the experience of some companies, managing them grows to be a hassle (higher cost) faster than might be otherwise expected. IMHO, MSFT needs to make NT scalable on Intel boxes, to continue to gain market share. They're trying their hardest to do just that. And that's (IMHO) one reason they keep delaying it. We'll have to wait and see how successful NT5 will be in that area. I hate to do it, but no way do I want to deal with a dozen seprate NT boxes. The article in InfoWeek mentions the growing difficulty in doing jsut that: Managing thos boxes (despite the relative cheapness of getting them) Regards Kal.