by > Hello,
> I am a computer engineering student and sent this message to
> you.
> I have a one year database project for goverment. I use EMPRESS database
> engine on Linux and the customers satisfied. But now they change their
> mind. They think Windows NT is better than Linux. They want me to present
> the good point of Linux that better than Windows NT
> I need your help. I have to present this on 22th of January. Please answer
> me as soon as you can.
from another stand point. I'm trying to get our local suppurt
at least to allow me to use linux.
a valid one indeed. It's is very difficult to find that killing
argument against NT, it's bad but it's not bad enough. I've used
it over a year and a half now so I know what I'm talking about.
It may not be as stable as people say. This depends very much
on which hardware you use. Mine reboots about twice a week
and I mostly run an X-emulator and exel. Another identical
machine which is not connected to our local ethernet network
has been up a year now although this mashine isn't used very much.
I include this comparison because a win311 would not be as stable
with the same load and most of the hype about NT comes from the
stability relative to 3.11.
Maybe one argument against NT that is hard to ignore is that it's
very expensive to administer in a large network. The argument to
use Windows at all is all those programs that run on it.
Many of these programs will use the C: disk for setup and/or
initialization. This is a real pain in the .. since that
prevents you from efficient administering procedures. This have
given our help desk (with some help from me ;-) a good number of
headaches and many (in this case swedish krones) in your case $$
for time wasted on support (per unit), mony that you will never
have to spend on a unix (or linux) network.
BTW, lets move this discussion to comp.os.linux.advocacy as suggested.
/jarek
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