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Technology Stocks : DELL Bear Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1809)	9/3/1998 7:32:00 AM
From: divvie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2578

I would have to agree with Gary here. A lot of companies are lured into the NT and SQL server camp by the apparent low cost of entry. However scalabiliy and reliability issues mean that a lot of companies also find that the total cost of ownership is as high as Unix due to increased support costs and hardware costs when they find that they need more NT servers than originally thought. As an example, there are numerous companies that have abandoned data warehousing projects on NT and SQL server to return to Unix or even the AS/400. NT's problem is that is has a 3GB memory address limit (easily breached by complex data mining queries in a data warehouse)and SQL server 6.5 can only access up to 200GB of storage. SQL server7 can now scale to 1 terabyte, however. Furthermore, our bank for example, cannot move to NT for our mission critical systems until MSFT realize that to reboot any time there is a problem is simply not an option. Our Unix servers have not had to be rebooted (except for release upgrades) for two years! It is heartening to see in the computer press that companies are becoming wise to the limitations of NT. However, as I have said to Bilow, this could actually be good for DELL as the marketing for NT is so good that companies will continue to invest in new installations, requiring extra servers when the Wolfpack clustering solution finally comes on srteam and DELL can start encroaching upon CPQ's $100k server market. BTW doesn't Oracle still outsell SQL server on NT?