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- From: plummer@iceonline.com (Dave Plummer)
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-( Who really gives a shit what you buy
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 18:16:53 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Prairie Software
- Message-ID: <4de5ml$iah@news.microsoft.com>
- References: <1d7cc$16392e.2b6@news.inf.net> <30f8988b.9954388@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <30f8c93c.918044@news.sasknet.sk.ca> <4dap0r$oe5@news.netvoyage.net> <slrn4fi89a.a4p.davis@wiwaxia.mit.edu> <DL6oMn.4LA@world.std.com> <4dbk1c$cpn@hermes.oc.com> <4dbn2n$8g8_001@dialupS161.ici.net>
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- In article <4dbn2n$8g8_001@dialupS161.ici.net>, david@pencilnet.com says...
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- >In article <4dbk1c$cpn@hermes.oc.com>, R@Net.com (The Manager) wrote:
- >>>All Windows roads eventually lead to NT (or at least the NT technology
- >>>path).
- >.
- >>Eventually we'll all be using a version of NT. It runs on any platform,
- >>dosn't crash, and has excellent preformence. To bad you need a tonne of
- >>RAM and a P5 150 to run it.
- >
- >I'm not buying this argument. Unix is still way ahead of NT for databases
- >because it is scalable and a better performer. NT, on the other hand, is
- >easier (and sometimes less expensive) to deploy some applications on, such
- >as FAX servers, Apple File Service servers, reasonably-sized databases, etc.
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- OOhhh... buzzwords!
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- Please explain to me why NT is less scalable than UNIX. And why it is better
- for database performance. And then why Chevs are faster than Fords, while
- you're at it.
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- - Dave
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