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To: dwight martin who wrote (5063)	2/9/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: ynot	Respond to of 10081

If you sell to a customer with high quality demands, technically, you have to meet them...Telco's always need reliability...dial-tone... The number of times NT crashes, etc..., while debatable MAY be worrysome to those guys. As for sophmore mistakes, they do what the investors tell them. Too many MBA's per square inch in the valley who draw lines of influence to market leaders and forget that they have to build,and deploy to the customers spec. The GM user interface is GOOD, meets their client's interface, BUT they have to meet the needs of the resellers, or the client can't buy

To: dwight martin who wrote (5063)	2/9/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Hummer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

There was no "sophomore mistake", there was a business decision. If purely technical decisions were always the right decisions, there would be an entirely different microcomputer industry today. The whole history of the computer industry is one of business decisions being more important than purely technical decisions, and that continues. Don't rule out the existence of GMGC software that makes up for some of the NT shortcomings, either. Sure, there are a lot of things that are a hassle in NT when compared with Unix, but that doesn't mean that they are less reliable. Some of the bitching about NT is just old dogs not wanting to learn new tricks, and some of it is indeed shortcomings within NT. Still works just fine and still has better uptime than most stuff as far as I can find out. So ?