From cspence@FuelSpot.com Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:03:04 -0700 From: Christopher Spence Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:03:04 -0700 Subject: RE: but will it run windows? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Not everyone can throw money/hardware at an OS's deficiencies. Os deficiencies? It takes $60,000 server to run Solaris OK. In NT you get the same performance at about $5,000. Most of the deficiences are to the poor performance of the intel processor in comparison to the 64bit risc counterparts. Till you hit around $100,000 or more, do you see the real advantages of the unix platform. "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax: (707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863 -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Not everyone can throw money/hardware at an OS's deficiencies. Windows has a great interface, if it would only work as advertised. I think the big desire is to see M$ tighten up their codebase, i.e., make everything work better and more reliably rather than packing in additional features that only one user in a million will ever use (and opening up 10 additional exploits in the process). Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX Christopher Spence wrote: > > > > And that is why 30 million people run windows. > > Yup, windows is completely useless. Get rid of it. It crashes every > 1 second. > > I am no microsoft fan, but I have my laptop which I reboot once/3 > months. I close it, which puts it in standby and I take it home, it > automatically awks my wireless network and on the internet when I walk in the door, go to work > and it is back on our lan. Got a win2k machine at home running, oracle, as > well as many other things, which I use to play games as well. I > haven't rebooted it in 2 months, that was because I had to downgrade > ie6 beta back to 5.5 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Scott Shafer INET: sknd100@yahoo.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Christopher Spence INET: cspence@FuelSpot.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).