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To: ed who wrote (10395)	8/29/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

ROTFL. The number of lines of code does not determine the (a) quality, (b) speed, or (c) capability of the code. For all we know, it could be mostly no-ops. JMHO.

To: ed who wrote (10395)	8/29/1998 2:41:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The release of Solais 2.7 in October is good for MSFT's investor, because it will force Microsoft to show what is in its sleeve and probably release the NT5 even earlier. Right, ed. So the arbitrary slippage going on with NT5 is another clever ruse by the brilliant Bill, to get Sun to tip its hand, eh? Now that a new version of Solaris is out, NT ship dates are going to start moving forward instead of back? Maybe you should call up Jim Allchin and let him know, he seems to be getting a little apologetic of late. Besides , I do not think Microsoft's R&D is so dumb to develop the NT5 with over 40 millions line of codes but have less performance comparing with Solaris which had only 11 millions of codes. That is quite a brilliant formulation. Improving performance by code bloat would count as a truly impressive innovation, if that were actually what's going on. Or maybe it's true. Me, I'd estimate that the "sucks less" side is once again being overrun by the "more features" crowd, but that's just a guess. Cheers, Dan.

To: ed who wrote (10395)	8/31/1998 12:05:00 AM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

youve got to be kidding - so NT 5.0 is going to be 4 times better than Solaris because its 4 times as large? (im giving microslop the benefit of the xtra 4 mil lines of code). at 40 million lines of code NT 5.0 is many times bigger than MVS forget Solaris - actually NT 4.0 is bigger than Solaris and MVS so therefore it must be better. typical Microsoft thinking. NT 5.0 when (and this is a big one) - when it arrives will definately be big enough - it just wont be powerful, robust, strong or reliable enough. it will be a capable file and print server and low end application server by sheer power of extending its monopoly against its low end competition (Netware, OS/2, SCO) - millions will be sold, like millions of netware licenses were sold - but it wont be in the same class as Solaris 2.7 and most likely Solaris 3.0 by the time NT Vaporware arrives against reduced expectations.