Comment Re:NT (Score 1) 95
When you read these stats you have to ask yourself "what kind of users are these?". I use NT as my desktop OS at work, almost everyone I know does too. Almost every one also shuts there computer off every evening before going home. I don't have actual statistics supporting this, but I suspect that in most cases NT is deployed as a desktop OS. This is not a "mission critical" OS, although it was intended to by a server OS, it isn't used that capacity in many cases.
Unix machines on the other hand have much more expected of them. It's not unusual to have Unix servers that have been running continuously for years. There is an old Sun server I use at work that has never crashed in over 5 years.
My company sells products that are deployed on NT servers and we state that they must run only our server applications. We have found that if you pre-configure everything, and run just a small set of applications, NT works fine. You don't have to be a Unix zealot to understand that NT is not as robust of an OS as Unix.
Unix machines on the other hand have much more expected of them. It's not unusual to have Unix servers that have been running continuously for years. There is an old Sun server I use at work that has never crashed in over 5 years.
My company sells products that are deployed on NT servers and we state that they must run only our server applications. We have found that if you pre-configure everything, and run just a small set of applications, NT works fine. You don't have to be a Unix zealot to understand that NT is not as robust of an OS as Unix.
