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To: Robert who wrote (10118)	6/10/1998 11:39:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Byte, April '98 ... Crash-Proof Computing by Tom R. Halfhill "Here's why today's PCs are the most crash-prone computers ever built - and how you can make yours more reliable." byte.com Not an NT vs. UNIX comparison (PC vs. Mainframe) but a good article nonetheless.

To: Robert who wrote (10118)	6/11/1998 1:51:00 AM
From: mozek	Respond to of 64865

Robert, Generally good post, but I believe you have made at least one technical mistake and an assumption that is actually only opinion. The alternatives are a Tower of Babel of conflicting protocols, a proprietary standard like NT which will only talk with others who talks its protocols (PPTP etc), or open standards like TCP/IP. NT has supported TCP/IP as part of the operating systems since at least 1995 and interoperates on many networks with an incredible variety of network protocols (TCP/IP, IPX, NetBUI, and others). On the server side, NT will never be able to match Unix at the high end, but this does not mean it cannot be significant in its own right. I understand that many people believe this, but this is, actually, an opinion. I do agree that Unix is scaling better than NT in very high end systems today. I also believe that NT scales quite well for many applications and will scale better than Unix earlier than many do or (in the case of competition) would like to believe. Thanks, Mike

To: Robert who wrote (10118)	6/11/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: EenieMeenie	Respond to of 64865

Robert, Thanks for bringing my Unix vs NT question back from the dead. I thought it was lost forever. Chris

To: Robert who wrote (10118)	6/11/1998 10:08:00 AM
From: micromike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Microsoft: Derailed? upside.com Java could be the next big thing. It's open, it's better than anything Microsoft has, and it could squeeze Microsoft's margins on the low end and knock it out of the high end. Sorry, Bill, but you only dominate the past--that quaint business of desktop computing. "Two years ago, Microsoft dominated development standards. Now it has legitimate competition," says Scott Winkler, vice president and research director at the Gartner Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn. "Every time somebody chooses Java, it's a real loss [for Microsoft]." --- Add a touch of DOJ and the recipe is looking good. Mike