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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:47:17 +0200
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1018305049.52a762@mired.org>
Cc:        <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix
Message-ID:  <00b201c1db61$825e66e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Mike writes:

> Got references to back that up?

Nope.

> That's the scame Terry outlined: pay high
> school students $8/hour to answer phone calls
> at $35/15 minutes or thereabouts, so that the
> more bugs you have that can be found in the
> database, the more money you make.

Microsoft does not hire high-school students for technical support, as far
as I know, not even for first-line support.

> What he actually said was that under a test
> load, Win NT crashed far to quickly to usefull,
> whereas Win 2000 was rock solid.

He was probably just trying to sell Windows 2000.  Windows NT is extremely
solid already.

> If they're *your* applications ...

They aren't.  They are applications I've bought, for many times the cost of
all my hardware.

> If it's the list of applications you've
> posted before, there is software available
> - at no cost, mind you - that will handle
> all the chorse they handle except reading
> proprietary data formats.

I have to be able to read the proprietary data formats; that is not an
option.  "Almost" isn't enough.

> If you're stuck in a situation where proprietary
> data formats means you have to use a desktop that
> an objective evaluation shows is the least effecient
> model in common - or even uncommon - use,
> then you have my sympathy.

I don't know of any such evaluation.




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