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The G in Tina G. stands for "Gets the facts"!
Smitty
On Saturday 30 June 2001 13:37, you wrote:
> Actually, all I've been able to find out is that MS
> has one mission critical system at NASDAQ. It's called
> "marketwatch." It monitors the market for suspicious
> or unusually heavy activity on any particular
> company's stock and can halt trading on that stock. MS
> has posted a case study on that at
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/exec/casestudy/casestudy/nasdaq.asp
>
> And then there's the infamous "Linux Myths,"
> originally posted on October 4, 1999, that states in
> part:
>
> "The Linux community likes to talk about Linux as a
> stable and reliable operating system, yet there are no
> real world data or metrics and very limited customer
> evidence to back up these claims.
> Windows NT 4.0 has been proven in demanding customer
> environments to be a reliable operating system.
> Customers such as Barnes and Noble, The Boeing
> Company, Chicago Stock Exchange, Dell Computer, Nasdaq
> and many others run mission-critical applications on
> Windows NT 4.0."
>
> The full paper is at
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/NTServer/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp
>
> I've still not been able to ascertain what NASDAQ runs
> on; Worldcom stuff seems to run on Solaris, all
> NASDAQ's web stuff runs on IIS and Windows 2000, so it
> wouldn't be too much of a stretch to assume that
> they're msofties all the way. But we want to know for
> sure before we gloat. :-)
>
> Tina
>
> --- Steven Johnson <alinuxguru@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> In fact, if you want to make an
>
> > argument against Microsoft - as
> > far as I know there is no Microsoft system that is
> > mission critical.
>
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