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To: IanBruce who wrote (10419)3/30/1998 5:07:00 AM
From: Hugues  Respond to of 213177
 
NT servers are not reliable. I am offering internet web design here in France. I am actually working offline on mac and hosting on Unix. However, if you want to use databases, this becomes costly and complicated. I was searching for a ISP that could provide me with internet hosting on NT. There should be tremendous offer for this, I thought, given the number of M$ developers and how some simple database as Access has spread. I ask the major isp here. What they said was clear: If you want an Unix environment, it's OK. If you want to put your own machine, have it connected to the Internet, and take care yourself of its up time, that's OK too. But we don't provide NT servers ANYMORE, because they don't work reliably enough. To be fair, I could not find a sophisticated hosting service on Mac either. I suspect lack of demand is one reason, but absence of big server software seems to be another one



To: IanBruce who wrote (10419)3/30/1998 9:07:00 AM
From: Alomex  Respond to of 213177
 
With apologies in advance to Alomex

"NT has a long way to go before it consistently achieves the uptime that Unix users take for granted.

Nothing to apologize for. The above is true.

Unfortunately, the "Blue Screen of Death" isn't rare.

I would confidently say that the Blue Screen is ten times rarer, per minute of CPU usage, than Win95 or MacOS. While UNIX is even sturdier than that (say about 100 times more stable than Win95 or MacOS).


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