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To: Mike Milde who wrote (10393)	8/29/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Mike - I have worked in a mixed environment with Sun, HP, and Intel based servers and workstations since the late 80's. I have done driver development under both Solaris and HP-UX as well as OS/2, Netware and NT on the Intel boxes. We have many NT based systems that require almost no maintenance, and at least 2 that have run for more than a year without a reboot. I have had more difficulty with crashes on the Solaris 2.6 systems than with either the HP-UX or NT systems even though the job mix on the sun boxes is more constrained. I know many people who have had similar experience. Solaris is a reasonably competent OS but not as good as either HP-UX or DEC Unix for reliability or stability at least in my experience. And a well-managed NT system can have good stability and reliability, although not while doing every damn-fool thing that users (or MSFT) might suggest. I am not a cheerleader for MSFT or a Solaris basher but on the other hand some of the nonesense cheryl comes up with would make even the average marketing hack gag. There is so little intersection between the markets where Solaris does well and those where NT does well that these kinds of comparisons are kind of in the Jeep versus Miata category. 'My jeep can go straight through that cow pasture! can your miata do that?'

To: Mike Milde who wrote (10393)	8/30/1998 6:36:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Mr. Mike Milde, <<>> We are dealing with the print scheduler hanging up, file system crashing, phantom processes, processes that can not be killed and etc and etc and etc! How little does a person actually need to know to use UNIX? Is over 20 year of combine experience among 3 people enough? Go back and read the post on this thread concerning UNIX. You'd think that UNIX had no problems!!! I'm just trying to present a realistic view of UNIX, something that is missing from here. UNIX has it's own problems and is far from being the perfect OS. This is unlike the view that some UNIX promoters and Microsoft NT bashers are trying to present. For every problem brought up here related to an OS, this is one in a competing OS. Get real, I have yet to find any OS, including UNIX, that can live up to that hype here. Thank You JK