Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:04:13 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any news on w2k in the world? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003021056380.88144-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003021850270.93707-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Setting security aside for the moment, what about other issues? > Overall stability, speed, hardware support, administration, > scalability, etc. No idea. > I am concerned about all this because i *just* got into Unix, and i > hoped pursuing a job in the field isn't a waste of time. Now M$ > appears with a 'Unix-slayer' OS, at least in their minds, and they put > enough time into development and testing to raise a few eyebrows. And > unlike previous releases, this one is really getting good reviews. I really don't think UNIX is going away in the next few years, do you? > I just heard from someone recently about several banks that switched > to NT from Unix. I thought banks would stick to the most robust > systems. Apparently i was wrong. Remind me never to bank with them :) Seriously though, if you saw someone falling off a building, would you assume they had learned the secret of flight, because otherwise they wouldn't have jumped off the building? I think someone posted here a few weeks ago the joke about the classical economist and the physicist, who were walking along the street together, when the physicist looked down and say a $100 note on the side of the road. "Look, someone dropped a $100 note!" he exclaims as he bends down to pick it up. The classical economist doesn't even bother to look down, but replies, "that's quite impossible - if there was a $100 note on the road then someone else would have picked it up long ago". Moral: never assume that just because you see someone make a decision that they did it for smart reasons, or for any reason at all. In the real world businesses are far from being perfectly efficient. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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