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To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (9238)	7/15/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Jordan, At an industry Executive Briefing I attended 3 weeks ago, we were told by the Aberdeen Industry Analyst to "ask MSFT if they have moved their company to run on NT and see what answer you'll get.". Most of their operations we were told run on non-NT (i.e. AS/400 to name one platform). Now if this Aberdeen Analyst was completely wrong, I would like hear exactly what enterprise IT infrastructure they run they entire company on. Do they have a complete enterprise world-wide domain structure and NT services? Please Jordan, if you can shed details on MSFT environment I would be very interested in hearing it. If the Aberdeen Analyst is completely wrong and MSFt is running their enterprise on NT, then my challenge to Gates and MSFT still stands. Ask Gates to upgrade 50% of all their internal NT servers to NT5 before publicly releasing it to their customers. WONT EVER HAPPEN!! As NOVL's Schmidt said "We have to be able to eat our own dog food if we are asking our customers to eat it". Commitments like that would make an IT decision-maker feel comfortable that the product will be acceptable to them. Jordan, if you have any ins with MSFT executives, ask them those questions and please tell us the responses you'll get. Toy

To: Jordan A. Sheridan who wrote (9238)	7/15/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Ed Schultz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

1. ToySoldier is just a NOVL lover and Microsoft hater. Although I believe in listening to both sides of the issue, he is so one-sided that it is hardly worth the effort. 2. Technical merits aside, Microsoft is a marketing company first and technology company second. (Unlike NOVL which has it backwards.) By this alone, regardless of Y2K, version numbers, etc, NT5 will be huge success. 3. NT5 is a fantastic product! And yes I am speaking of technicals. 4. Finally, I would venture to guess that more than 50% of the people at Microsoft are using NT and a large part of that is NT5. These are just my opinions only.