[NTLUG:Discuss] Fwd: [Fwd: Windows 2000 Magazine UPDATE,August 29, 2000]

[Steve Baker]

Michael Owens wrote:

> Despite their biggest FUD compaign ever, everyone has just about figured out
> that NT4, 5, DNA, 2000, NGWS, .NET---whatever the latest trendy moniker it's
> donning---will never measure up in the server market (no matter how much you
> pay Mindcraft so report otherwise ). I assume everyone knows about the ex-MS
> employee's assertion that MS uses all UNIX itself for their Internet services.
> I knew about HotMail running exclusively on FreeBSD, but never knew that it
> told its staff to not even <think> about using Windows 2000, or the failed
> attempts over 2-3 months to replace Oracle with SQL Server in another area.
> 
> It just seemed to me that this measure confirms a real fear inside Microsoft,

I think you underestimate the measure of their own self-delusion.  When you
talk to M$ employee's out of Redmond, they have a real sense that all this
FUD is real.  They are being told (internally) that NT is still the best
option for systems of small, medium and even quite large sized organizations -
but that Microsoft (being the largest web presence of them all - maybe) is
some kind of a special case - for which more mainframe technology is appropriate.

But for all the rest of us, NT should be fine.

Mircosoft has a policy of recruiting kids fresh out of college so they havn't
had much of a chance to be confronted with reality in another company.  They
really, truly believe what they are told about their organization being loved
by the majority of users and only shunned by people who are 'too cheap to buy
a proper OS'.

It's really sad to talk to these people...it's like there is some kind
of mass hallucination going on there.

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