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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (22085)	5/5/1999 1:01:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Michelle, just to correct you, most UNIX applications don't go right down to having kernel specific loadable modules. Most (95%) are SVR4+ and POSIX compliant making them highly portable amongst the current variety of UNIX vendors. And actually Oracle still develops on Solaris (primary dev environ).

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (22085)	5/5/1999 3:32:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

The market will decide which flavors survive. The varieties of Windows will soon outnumber UNIX. There's Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows NT 4.0, some 3.0 and the three flavors of the rumored Windows 2000 (or is it four this week)? That's eight varieties and counting. Linux works from smartcards to supercomputers. Where are the articles on 32-node clusters of Windows? NT isn't robust or scalable. Windows 3000 or 4000 won't be reliable or scalable. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Oracle, Informix etc. have already voted on whether or not Linux is a contender. informix.com With Linux proliferating on the web ... my money's on Linux surviving. While the "James Whip a Dead Horse Thread" record skips over and over thousands of times with his OPINION. I will let time tell whether or not he's correct. Here are some hard numbers for those with an open mind: The Internet OS Counter For this OS count the RIPE Host Count was used to collect host addresses. Also host addresses of the .edu domain were used. (.edu is own host collection done with Eric Wassenaar's nameserver query tool host. ). All host names beginning with 'ftp.', 'news.' and 'www.' (case insensitive) were queried. Data collection was performed between 08. April 99 and 19. April 99 The current April count has processed 1.465.124 hosts addresses. The Internet Operating System Count April '99 FTP.* (294.656 hosts queried) News.* (31.448 hosts queried) WWW.* (1.139.020 hosts queried) leb.net Linux Wins The Linux Counter counter.li.org The Internet Domain Survey nw.com The Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter Score: Linux 732 Windows -2472 ("Rules" would be positive, "Sucks" ... well, negative.) About the Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter This operating system quality and approval metric is based on a periodic AltaVista search for each of several operating systems, directly followed by "sucks", "rules", or "rocks". We search for all operating system names exactly as shown above, with the exceptions of Mac OS and VMS. For Mac OS, we add the search results for the incorrect but common spelling "MacOS". For VMS, we add the results for "OpenVMS". We do not search for any derogatory slang misspellings of any operating system name. electriclichen.com Ripe Host Count ripe.net Solaris, AIX and even NT have there respective places. NT is "good enough" for the corner QuickLube. Pretty pricey though for an inferior OS. Especially those patches ... er, I mean ... upgrades. Like I say, MSFT KNOWS a good OS ... that's why HotMail uses FreeBSD. Thanks for your insight. Best of luck.