Re: No OS Wars again...

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From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2000 - 19:45:14 EDT


I don't know much about networking.
But I do know that we use NT at work.

Once a week they have to take it down cold
for "maintenance" for an hour.

Why is this? I haven't seen this on OS/2 networks.

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:58:57 +0200 (MST), Alexander Wagner wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:29:59 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>>At 12:12 PM 7/30/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Bad news, folks -- OS wars are dumb. They've been going on since the
>>>early 80's, and there's no reason that we'll figure anything out now
>that
>>
>> War? Nah...just a few pot shots fired from the ones that
>>lost.
>
>Wouldn't say that I've lost at all. I run a very stable reliable
>network with very good apps for my daily work and save a lot of trouble
>you allways will have. Everything arround I need. Most of these apps
>(>>95%) run on my OS/2 machine, some run on our Alphas and HP's
>delivered directly to my desktop via OS/2. And I'm pritty shure I will
>stay on Warp speed quite a bit beyond Itanium. Then, well, we'll see
>again. But if M$ doesn't employ some real programmers and write working
>software till then, well, then they've lost. (Me as customer ;) I'm
>pritty shure they lost me allready but don't really know it. Notice
>that this could be dangerous. If I'm asked about and if I've a choice,
>and in most cases I have, I kick out Windows. (We've aircondition, eh?)
>
>To loose, well to me that looks a bit the other way round. It's more or
>less only a "Think Diffrent" without some fruits on your desktop. And
>you know: "We love you all!"
>
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