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To: rudedog who wrote (22669)	3/20/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: John Covert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Earth to hpeace! Earth to hpeace! Sir, if memory serves, roundabout six months ago you posted a list of CPQ dips in the last five years. I printed that post, but I lost it in an office move. Searching this entire thread could be, well, an arduous task. Do you recall what post that was? Can you repost that information? I'd be obliged. Regards, John

To: rudedog who wrote (22669)	3/20/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: Chris McConnel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Hi Rudedog, that's right, I remember now, Tandem was doing some "Bet the company" stuff with NT long before the were bought by CPQ. >>> IMHO DEC Unix can only be a serious contender if there is official or unofficial backing from MS which generates volume for the product. <<< That would not make sense, unless it was some kind of concession on MSFT's part. They want Windows EVERYWHERE. Unless they were thinking the unthinkable, like moving SQL Server to Unix. Nah, they wouldn't do that, even though IMHO it would be in MS's best interest. Infiltrate and assimilate until they were ready to conquer, as it were. So DEC Unix is the wild card in this. Sounds like a careful balancing act for CPQ. But HWP has a good Unix business and MS is (was?) buddy/buddy with them, too. It may just come down to, whatever it takes to get MS into the enterprise and if takes coexisting with Unix for the next 10 or more years to do it, they may have no choice in the matter. They are doing a port of IE4 for Unix, maybe more apps will follow. It sounds like MS has a hell of lot of work ahead of them to get NT to be industrial strength. - Chris

To: rudedog who wrote (22669)	3/20/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 97611

>> MS was paying Tandem $30M to move key portions of non-stop technology to NT NT enterprise server has key portions of Tandem's nonstop technology embedded. This has happened and has moved to market. The technology affects both the file system and automatic switchover for recovery after a hardware fault to backup processes in other cpus, at least as best I understand it. This is certainly a key part of Tandem's fault tolerance in the high-end Tandem servers, as is loosely coupled processors in multi-cpu systems (no shared memory, for instance; an essential prerequisite to high-level fault tolerance, and vital to linear expandability). I'm not on the inside of this and can't answer any questions about implementation details. Nor do I know whether or not the complete isolation of processors from each other was part of the NT port. This is the hardest part (and is the fundamental behind Tandem's key patents in the field). All of this is now owned by CPQ, of course.