Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/24

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Subject: RE: VERY OT - RE: [Leica] R9 scoop/ot
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:03:08 -0400

Hi John,

> Austin,
>
> You sound well-informed on the DEC/MS connection

More than you realize ;-)

> ...but as a VMS fanatic, I
> must speak up to say that NT (and subsequent OS) SMP, clustering, and
> reliability are still pretty weak in spite of Digital's influence. I
> realize you never said they were especially strong, but the Microsoft way
> of doing things appears to have won out over DEC's well-engineered,
> well-documented, hardware fault tolerant approach.

You are absolutely correct.  There were far better third party clustering
for NT than MS ever did, in fact, MS bought a few of those companies...

Regards,

Austin

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