Re: tlug: more NT links

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne <jpmag@example.com> writes:

    jb> Which one will come out better in this competition still
    jb> remains to be seen, but I think that this point we can fairly
    jb> say that neither is really invading the other's turf very well
    jb> from a technical standpoint (NT has a very long way to go as a
    jb> server OS, while Unix has a very long way to go as a desktop
    jb> OS), but NT generally seems to be doing a better job of
    jb> invading Unix' turf when viewed from a sales standpoint.

No, NT has a lot farther to go.  In Unix, if you fix any one of the
applications, you make a quantum leap in user-friendliness for some
group of users.  In NT, you have to fix a lot of small things to make
it more useful for anybody.

Unless NT gets its act together soon, that marketing success could
turn into a big minus.  The executives who now mandate M$ on the basis
of the luser-friendly Windose 95 interface and the hope that NT can
provide sophisticated network management with half-trained network
operating lusers will completely lose trust.

And those "sales" figures are partly an illusion, since they're based
on revenues, not installed systems, and nobody knows how many
"hit-and-run Linux-based midnight system managers" there are running
NT during the day.  :-)

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