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To: Larry Rotsaert who wrote (7739)	2/14/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

A thousand trades a minute divided among 10 NT boxes, each configured as a dual Pentium Pro, hardly seems impressive.

To: Larry Rotsaert who wrote (7739)	2/15/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

NT vs. UNIX Personal anecdote: On Friday, I went out for lunch with five other UNIX support people and three NT support people. Guess what, the NT people's lunch was spoiled because they were paged and had to go back to deal with a problem NT mail server. They told us that they get called in EVERY weekend to deal with hung and malfunctioning NT servers. Oh boy, I'm glad I'm in the UNIX services group!

To: Larry Rotsaert who wrote (7739)	2/16/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Larry, Wall Street goes for the most reliable machines that money can buy for their main transaction processors. These include System 390, Tandem no-downs and HP's. They, of course, use PC's and workstations for front-ends, but it's mostly still big iron for the most critical applications. When NT 5.0 gets here, it will be tested by the big boys for performance, scalability, reliability, etc. Who knows, maybe Merced is out by then. That's when it's really going to be fun. BTW, anyone that thinks that a quad 200 MHz Pentium Pro, 1 MB cache (per Ppro) is not a server has their head in the sand. And oh, by the way, if that is not enough, you can cluster the quads to other quads to other quads ad nauseum. Tony