🚀 go-pugleaf

poniżej zamieszczam całkiem interesujący dokument (znaleziony na
http://www.bitwizard.nl/unixnt.html) Ponieważ jest niewielki,
zamieszczam w całości. Może na jego podstawie da się zlikwidować
"Problem z Mikołajkiem" - tematycznie pasuje do tego 

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                         UNIX vs. NT

The development of NT versions for the heavy server market is on the
downgrade. In February after IBM and Motorola turned away from their
PowerPC initiative, Microsoft stopped the development of NT for the
PowerPC platform. The development of NT for the MIPS processors has
been given up already before. Furthermore, the performance of Pentium
Pro based SMP systems using four or more processors running NT appears
to be quite disappointing. This means that at best the Alpha will be
the only high-end platform that NT will be available for. However, at
this moment there is not enough software available for the Alpha. 
Furthermore, the development is being slowed down by the FX32
technology.

Research institute Gartner reacted to the cancellation of the NT for
PowerPC development by advising to only use NT on the Intel platform.
This implies that NT will not be suitable for heavy-duty server
installations. According to Netcraft surveys most of the Internet and
intranet servers are UNIX systems. Indeed, especially most larger and
professional sites are UNIX based. The trend towards more interactivity
on Web sites will only increase the UNIX market share.

IDC (International Data Corporation) reported a strong growth of the
UNIX market in 1996. The exponential expansion of Internet and intranet
technology mean that UNIX will penetrate each organization in the near
future. For example, figures of Forrester Research show an explosive
growth in the use of e-mail. In 1992 only 2 percent of the American
people used e-mail. In January this figure had increased to 15 percent,
and it will be over 50 percent within five years!

Apart from its power and availability, the two main reasons to prefer
UNIX over NT are its stability and flexibility. Especially in the
highly TCP/IP networked environment we will all be dealing with in the
forthcoming years, UNIX will be the most suitable solution for the
Network Operating System. There are quite some reasons to prefer UNIX
over NT here:
   * security: Since UNIX was designed as a multi-user multi-process
     platform for interconnected computers, guaranteeing security has
     been an issue ever since the beginning. The Internet and UNIX
     community has forced the UNIX vendors to become more and more open
     about security leaks in their systems. This means that UNIX
     vendors nowadays have to publish fixes for their software whenever
     a security problem is found. Microsoft still manages to be
     secretive about security problems; they don't tell you when a
     problem is found, and fixes are hard to come by. Microsoft
     dismisses many problems as "user errors". If you turn on a feature
     that was off by default, it was you who generated that security
     hole: you shouldn't have done that. On UNIX we think that this
     feature was there for the purpose of being used anyway, and it
     becomes a priority to fix the problem.
   * stability: In environments where complete businesses are built
     around heavy server systems, stability and long uptimes providing
     high availability are essential. Some vendors even recommend
     rebooting NT "every week" to get rid of the random junk that
     running the system has left over.
   * multi-user, multi-process.  scalability: UNIX systems are
   * available from simple PC's to
     giant SMP systems (Symmetric Multi-Processor), allowing you to
     obtain UNIX machines for each occasion and price.
   * servers simultaneously support PC's and conventional terminal
     solutions: Upcoming thin clients, for example Network Computers,
     Net-PC's, and Java Stations, will require heavy system and
     application servers.
   * a very complete suite of networking facilities standard: In the
     coming years of Internet and intranet, where "The Network is the
     Computer", TCP/IP networking will be the standard.
   * open: UNIX has been built on open standards, allowing anyone to
     easily access operating system features and develop applications.
   * age: Being over 25 years old, the UNIX design has been
     crystallized out further than any other operating system currently
     being used on a large scale.

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mam nadzieję, że nie zostany za to zamordowany :)


pozdrawiam

GiZu

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