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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BGR who wrote (60268)	5/21/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Sorry, this argument I don't buy. Even if Win2K delivers, what does that mean? It appears to attack NDS, sure, but that's not your argument. You're claiming that PC servers will explode as a result. There are two ends here: cheap, low-end and legacy boxes, and high-end x-way Xeon boxen. In the former case, it is too fat: Linux rules for the cost- and hardware-constrained. In the latter case, NT is already there (how many people are running x86 Solaris? Not many.) Even the promises of 8+-way Xeon/W2K appear to fall short of present competition for the few applications (e.g., terabyte DBs) where you actually need huge multiprocessor Unixes or old-fashioned big iron. My small- or mid-sized employer demands NT apps because we're already on NT; W2K seems unlikely to add markedly to demand. -mb