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on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:49:07 +0200
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> On 12 Apr 2007 10:44:09 -0700, "Rex Ballard" <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Bill
>>took on the offensive even more, claiming that NT would be "A better
>>Linux than Linux".
>
> You'll be hard pressed to find a reference. Any links, please, where
> we can see where and when Bill Gates said NT would be "A better Linux
> than Linux"?
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/17056/17056.html
might be of some interest. It's dated 1997-05-22.
UNIX vendors switching to Windows NT
"All the Unix vendors here want to jump on the NT bandwagon; they're
all dying to get together with Microsoft," said Selim Antoun, a
consulting analyst with NCR, a manufacturer of Unix workstations.
(Wonder what he's saying now. :-) )
"Unix as a common operating system never caught on," said Microsoft
CEO Bill Gates. "There were committees coming up with things that
worked properly with the various systems but each manufacturer
continued to have its own developers and its own engineers, leading
to fragmentation."
While NT's scalability still can't touch the highest-end UNIX
systems, NT is a killer combination of speed and price for systems
with one to four CPUs. At the Scalability Day event, Microsoft
demonstrated that a PC server running Windows NT with 30GB of disk
capacity would cost about $60,000. The Sun Solaris equivalent costs
almost $160,000. Sun is aware that NT beats Solaris solutions as
well:
"We don't have a cost-optimized, four-[CPU system] and we're keenly
aware of that and we're not afraid of meeting the challenge," said
David Douglas, marketing director for workgroup servers at Sun.
(Nowadays, a basic PC workstation with 30GB might cost a few hundred.
Ah, the strangeness of it all.)
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