On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Timothy MacDonald wrote:
> >
> > > The local NT-head ( and decision maker ) here in the office is basing his
> > > opinion of linux off a sidebar in Windows NT magazine. I think that his
> > > information is biased and misleading, if not wrong, but I really don't know
> > > enough about the Linux kernel to argue against it. I have included parts of
> > > the article below. If someone more knowledgable than I could take a look and
> > > tell me whether it is correct or not I really would appreciate it!
> >
> > This article sounds like Microsoft's standard FUD tactics, now applied
> > to linux. It is really something of a joke, and we should all maintain
> > our sense of humour as we read it instead of getting incensed. After
> > all, until a few years ago, Microsoft couldn't even run its own website
> > on an NT system. Linux, on the other hand, is the darling of the
> > ISP/website provider community because it scales marvelously well under
> > rather large loads and is for the most part rock solid stable, as in 100
> > day uptimes under full load are a rather routine occurence. NT, on the
> > other hand...
>
> goes down more often than Monica Lewinsky.
>
> Sorry Alan, but you make a good straight-man. I simply couldn't
> resist, having several dozen NT boxes here. Our average Linux box
> is up 100 times longer than our average NT box, 'on average'. :)
Gee, that would be what, once a day? Say it ain't so! And I just
dropped a gazillion dollars on NT Server for my mission critical SMP
server...N(o)T!
rgb
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