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
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