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Rock solid and reliable

For me, I spent much of my early career with mainframe (and mid-range) IBM kit. It was always reliable (apart from the odd peripheral) and the OS was rock solid. It could run flat out all day every day at 100% and still do a good job of load balancing.

Lately I have worked with the *NIXes and Microsoft NT through Vista. I can leave the NIXes running all day and every day, but the Microsofties still just don't get it. They just don't seem to understand what a business critical platform requires. The scheduler is a shocker. Perhaps they should download the Linux kernel to see how its done.

The longer I work with Microsoft OSes, the more respect I have for IBM.

Posted by: simon.hacketpain@...   Posted on: 08/20/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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