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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!eecs-usenet-02.mit.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.probe.net!not-for-mail From: opsys@open-systems.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network Performance Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 21:09:44 GMT Organization: Probe Technology Internet Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <33bac1aa.215140895@news.probe.net> References: <slrn5qngmn.ie2.jlc@mass-pc.wpi.edu> <5oh9h1$fuc$1@news9.gte.net> <33AC4AC3.2C67@Houston-InterWeb.COM> <5opk40$aho@nusakan.cedar.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: max1-38.probe.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43860 On 24 Jun 1997 19:09:52 -0400, Ajay Shekhawat <ajay-bsd@cedar.Buffalo.EDU> wrote: I don't think NT will ever DOMINATE the scene. I was recently talking to another consultant, who had mentioned that koch, ind. recently replaced ALL their unix cans for NT. there network was running a couple hundred unix cans. In less than 2 weeks they had removed NT and put unix back on. They could not get the flexibility or performance they could get out of unix. As you can imaging this was a VERY expensive lesson for them to learn. I'm sure they will not be so quick to hop on the MS bandwagon again after this "experiment". NT is here, and we need to learn to work with it. We just don't have a choice anymore. Someone in ;login recently brought up a good point. He asked how we were going to defend unix against NT. When your suit wearing boss says "Let's try running our print services off of NT instead of that cumbersome unix stuff". How can you explain to him that running a print server off a cheap PC with NT is not really all that cost effective in the long run. When all he see's is the bottom line, and doesnt look at the future or long term, the downtime, the unreliability, etc.. Just a thought. In my little world the servers would be FreeBSD and the clients os/2.