Windows NT V Unix
- Administrators worldwide are being confronted with the question, should we go with Microsoft Windows NT Server or one of the UNIX operating systems? As you already know, UNIX is not a single operating system; it refers to a family of operating systems.
- Technically, Windows NT Server 4.0 is no match for any UNIX operating system, not even the non-commercial BSD's or Linux... Microsoft even admit to this.
- When Microsoft took over Multi-million user Web-based Email company Hotmail in 1997, it was run using Unix Servers. The Microsoft engineering team tried to replace the Solaris infrastructure with their own system but it proved to be too much for NT to handle and Solaris was reinststed.
- The bottom line is, which is cheaper? taking into account hardware costs, software licenses, prices of upgrades/service packs, costs of hardware upgrades, profits lost for every hour of downtime, personnel costs for recovering/recreating data lost due to product defects in the operating system and/or hardware platform required by your choice of operating system.
- Sun Microsystems rack-mount servers start at around �900 sterling! with workgroup stand-alone servers starting around �4000 and enterprise starting around �20000. Sun systems VERY rarely have any problems whatsoever. And Solaris is VERY stable.... and free.
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