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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: keithsha who wrote (11356)	10/16/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

LOL! What a nice try at describing TTS. Of course you are completely wrong. TTS and caching are not even related to each other much less a patch to the other. TTS is a technology used to determine the beginning and end of a logical transaction so that the logical transaction (which could be as many as 10 different writes to various database tables in one logical transaction) could be backed out in the event of a system failure. Its original purpose was for internal use with BTreive which NetWare's old Bindery Services relied upon. But many developers realized the benefit of using this important feature within a database application and the better written LOB applications integrated TTS into their system. NT does not have this feature and relies on the application to perform TTS. For you to make the statement that TTS is only a NetWare patch again sticks your foot in your mouth even deeper. All the most complex database systems, including SQL Server have their version of TTS included. Its commonly referred to as 1 Phase Commit. As for NLM flakiness. There is no use arguing with you on this issue. You likely have not even seen a NetWare screen much less be able to provide intelligent information on NetWare. I have seen NetWare servers running with up-times of 200-300+ plus days while having over 100 NLMs running. Anyone that can say they have witnessed an NT server even up for 1/2 a year without one reboot, much less while it was loaded with 100+ services and applications, is just out-right lying. As for your Ring-3 chatter. 99.9% of NLMs run in Ring 0. IT Shops only rarely run NLMs in Ring 3 if they are not sure as to the stability of the NLM (similar to an untrusted NT or Win95 executable). And even if NetWare has to take a 20% hit, its still far faster than its NT counterpart. As for Java - I have to applaud you for finding a problem in NetWare 5. You are right that Console 1 is a dog. Its a problem with the Java app itself, but I know you wnt believe that. As for your concept of what is a real app and your statistics - fine you go ahead and believe your figures. If that makes you feel good. And you can also hug yourself and feel good that MSFT calls its domain structure a Directory Service. The real world knows that it is not. Why dont you ask industry analysts like Gartner Group, Giga, IDC, Aberdeen, etc. if they would call MSFT's Domains a Directory Service. Next week we will hear Mr. Gates call NT a Mainframe OS and I'm sure people like you will blindly believe him. That is why I coined the term MSFT-Lemmings for people like you. So what other FUD do you have to offer this board? Toy