From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 18:43:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135EE15005 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA20360; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990526184404.B18953@cpl.net> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:44:04 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Rick Hamell , "Mark L. Holloway" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows NT References: <19990526235355.10031.rocketmail@web505.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Rick Hamell on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:01:33PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm not trying to start a flame war..I am just curious. If NT is as > > horrible of an OS as everyone claims then why do web sites like > > Barnes and Noble, Ebay, CDW, and BuyComp (among others) use it? > > > > I'm not trying to praise NT - just wanting some information > > explaining why people should choose one OS over another. > > It's called marketing... it's the reason people choose Ford over > Chevy, Pizza Hut over Little Caesar, and Coke over Pepsi....:) Pizza Hut around here is better than Little Caesar, and Coke IS WAY WAY better than any Pepsi. :) And I think NT as a desktop OS is pretty good, and depending on what type of serving, it isn't BAD, just not Unix. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message