> Big Questions:
> 1. Why such an uproar over OS's when most problems
> are in the applications (except when NT munched
> itself one week after I took over).
But for a server platform - even an errant application SHOULD NOT BE ABLE
to crash the server.
> 2b. Do companies call Microsoft or Caldera or RedHat
> if some application misbehaves?
many times, applications are bundled as part of the OS. If Microsoft IIS
blows up on NT - yes, you call Microsoft. If Caldera's named blows up,
yeah - I'd call Caldera.
> 3. Do companies have IS departments to fix problems,
> or do the IS people call Microsoft? If a company has
> an IS department with trained professionals, why
> would the company switch from one OS (say Unix) to
> another OS (NT)? This seems counter-productive and
> expensive to me.
Hype. Period. The decisions are being made more and more by untrained,
non-technical management - rather than tech staff. This is how MS wants it
- because their ad's play up to the non-techs.
At least that is how I see it. It is my job to educate the non-techs about
the power of things like UNIX.
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