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To: David O'Berry who wrote (24178)	11/3/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: keithsha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

So much emotion, so little logic. Microsoft runs a $15 Billion company on NT technology and hosts one of the worlds busiest Web sites with 32 Million Page Views/Day and 176 million Hits/Day while sustaining an average of 50,000 simultaneous user page requests. I assure you, it works. BTW, ask Dell, NASDAQ and others that host their businesses on NT the same. I reserve the right to question any technology, Microsoft's included. In defense of my assertion about NDS and it's DBMS, Eric Schmidt has indicated that a redesign of NDS's underlying database is needed in Network World on 11/10/98, “Let's say that the current directory is more scalable than anyone else's and the next one is even more scalable than that. The way that is achieved is by changing the underlying data store. ... The big customers we have are rapidly putting every PC on NDS - 20,000, 30,000 and 40,000 PCs.” Of course, he didn't elaborate on why the current NDS store hits the wall as anyone pitching their product would not. NTS has many similarly sized environments and Microsoft is also changing the underlying data store in Windows 2000. I guess we will have to see which is the better DBMS company since that will determine what can be done with a Directory. Keithsha