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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (65455)	9/14/1998 2:30:00 PM
From: divvie	Respond to of 176387

NT is rapidly becoming the standard OS in the low to medium server range. What I am saying is that if MSFT can somehow make it scalable to the high end (and this is not a true scalable solution I admit) it can leverage tremendously and be able to claim that it has a migration path as companies outgrow their normal NT systems. The problem with clustering solutions for NT a few years ago was that there was no standard. Companies were locked in to a particular solution until MSFT announced Wolfpack (2 node clustering initially to go to 16 node clustering eventually). Now, even though wolfpack is late it was lauded as a good move in order to bring standards to the market. However, that standard is still MSFT - a different topic. The topic I am concerned about is CPQ's involvement. If MSFT could have produced a scalable solution on their own, it would have been fine for DELL but with CPQ involved I can't see them wanting to share without high license fees. I'm not sure of your point in saying that everything is stop gap. Yes change is constant and NT, for example, will change radically in the future but I don't see anyone betting against it. Is NT 4.0 stop gap because NT 5.0 is due out? Was Win95 stop gap?