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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (14735)	12/10/1997 4:49:00 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Windows NT in the enterprise market: exchange2000.com Train keeps a rollin'.

To: Alan Buckley who wrote (14735)	12/11/1997 3:49:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Alan, >This is hilarious.... Well, when your pants have dried out could you answer this hilarious question which somehow was forgotten amidst the raucous brouhaha which my comments usually bring public. Which is cheaper in the long run (or what we now refer to as TCO I guess): 1) Buying the next 5 versions of "UNIX-style" computing WindowsNT software or 2) Buying a single version of a real UNIX system and get today what NT promises to deliver at an undetermined date in the future. No one has addressed the fact that Microsoft may have raised their prices to reflect a pricing reality that exists in the non-PC world. Unlike PC software where you can make a promise, unload software onto the unsuspecting buyers, then abandon them to a Dante-esque life of re-installs; users in the real world demand that the thing works and they expect 'margin-killing overhead' such as SUPPORT and ACCOUNTABILITY for 'known issues'. In the end, WindowsNT will still have to do everything that UNIX does and at that point all you have is LINUX with a Barney screen-saver. Cheers, Norm