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To: Scott McPealy who wrote (10576)	7/21/1998 8:52:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

This is exactly the quote Scott McPealy posted: "But according to DiGiorgio, who in an interview said he has serviced automated control systems on Navy ships for the past 26 years, the NT operating system is the source of the Yorktown's computer problems." What are you trying to say?? This is no surprise to anyone. NT is simply not reliable. You have to reboot the things daily, but I've had Sun workstations (both Sparc and x86) running applications for months and months without a reboot. Mike

To: Scott McPealy who wrote (10576)	7/21/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I just hope that the rest of the government agencies take a hard look at this and STOP wasting money playing around with a toy OS like NT. As a consultant I've had the opportunity to work with various UNIX's and unfortunately NT. I just can't believe that any IT professional would even consider running any form of time/business critical system on NT. Short list of failings: 1. Frequency of re-booting. - due to instability - required after changing almost any paramaters 2. GUI is a requirement. - as a server you don't want a GUI displayed chewing up CPU cycles 3. Non package oriented installations. - can't cleanly remove installed software since dll's are shared - eventually becomes like a big wad of "stuff installed" that your really afraid to touch! 4. Lack of system level interface to fix real problems - under UNIX the system is open and you can edit configs, or use command line utilities to fix problems. - under NT the GUI OS control has holes 5. Networking capability sucks. 6. Scalability sucks. It's okay as a desktop environment but keep it out of the data centers ! ;) /James