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To: Esvida who wrote (15718)4/24/1999 5:49:00 PM
From: Mark Woolfson  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 64865
 
How about this report.

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Unix or Linux, looks like Unix still has a edge, forget NT or Windows



To: Esvida who wrote (15718)4/26/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Stormweaver  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
>> Now, if Linux vendors can come up with a liability model on the
>> server side, I suspect that it will be able to eat into other Unix >> servers in the same fashion.

I agree. 4-8 way proven scalability on Linux will be very dangerous for Sun and other UNIX vendors as these are the core sales in the server market. MSFT is still struggling on scalability (not much beyond 4 on x86 architecture); maybe 2000 solves that?