It took three years for Tractor Supply Co. to migrate its IT environment from Unix to Windows on Intel. After the deed was done, it only took a few weeks for the IT staff to realize that Windows was the wrong choice.
"'We saw blue screens of death and got calls in the middle of the night constantly,' said Stevan Townsend, manager of database and BASIS administration for TSC, a nationwide chain of stores that deals in farm and ranch products; the Nashville, Tenn.-based company's 2002 revenue surpassed $1 billion. 'It didn't take us long to realize that Wintel was not the wisest move.
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