RE: OT NT2K vs Unix.

Dayum!  I had the SAME experience, almost.

I tried to install SunOS5.6 on a very very early sparc chip, and boy, was it reluctant to work.

Fortunately, the vendor had TOTAL CONTROL over the hardware and software, so in addition to charging something like a 10x premium for its software, it could fix the problem internally.

Yea. Uh huh.

I got yer "dot in dot.com" right here....

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:PierceED_at_csus.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT NT2K vs Unix.

fwiw, a "real world" anecdote:

What we have been finding out in the middle of a nightmare LAN upgrade is that old p1/233 (originally win95) machines start croaking like a pond full of horny bullfrogs when new software (win98) is installed.

Amazingly, when we buy new hardware (pIII/700mhz), things work a *lot* better.

Next year's great adventure will be installing "whistler". I can't wait (sarcasm).

regards,
ep

>  From the URL:

...

> NSTL collected uptime data in the real-world environment of
> several customer sites and concluded that the average system
> uptime between failures of Windows 2000 Professional is 13 times
> more than that of Windows 98 and three times more than that of
> Windows NT Workstation 4.0.

...

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