Re: Win 2K

["Jim Armstrong" <jim_a technologist com>]

As the whole concept is off-topic since Linux, in it's current rendition
couldn't handle Hotmail either, I play the devil's advocate again...

When I was part of Corporate IT-Land, I found that the cause of Linux (as
well as other older flavors of UNIX) in the commercial arena was damaged
most by it's own advocates:

- No commercial support mechanism <<then>> for LINUX; when asked where the
chain of support accountability led, the answer was either "Everyone" or
"Back to us, I guess"

- Demonstrating multi-user/multi-tasking advantages of UNIX by putting up 7
command line windows on a $12,000 Sun Workstation.  You can't seem to beat
into a developer's head the difference between dev and office environments.

-  Demonstrating GUI properties by sitting the decision maker in front of a
Hummingbird X-Session window; or, worse even, an inferior GUI Application.

- Proponents addressed only obvious strengths.. usually were not prepared
for "Where's the Beef?" type questions... e.g.;" Where's the Apps?" and
"Where's the cross-platform integration?"... Ever price an NFS
cross-mounting commercial package in the mid 90's?

To answer the questions below.. I simply ask:

Was the Hotmail conversion concept based on NT4 or Win2K?  Even a punter
like myself knew that NT4 couldnt handle that sort of scale.

How do you establish credibility for your product by off-handed dismissal of
the competition?  To address the auto-horsepower analogy, it doesnt matter
WHERE the measurement is taken as long as it's taken at the same point,
under the same conditions, for all ... relative performance is the key.

As Client-Server evolves, the network transaction benchmark is the only
usable scale of comparison.  The important issue is that the transaction
template is typical to the real-world.

Jim Armstrong

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wilson and Sharon Farr <markandsharon csi com>
Subject: Re: Win 2K


>So why did the project to convert Hotmail to NT fail???
>
>I'd love to know the test parameters. Usually they are unusable for
>business. A bit like car manufacturers power readings. Measured at the
>crankshaft, not at the rear wheel and with the alternator, waterpump, oil
>pump and anything else that takes power disconnected...
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Jacobs <paul netpacq com>

>>Yes... but, you know that TPC is equivalent to 575X the combined traffic
of
>>both eBay AND Amazon.....
>>
>