Fact: Each time you OS sluggers get in the ring to duke it out about who
is best, I see at least 2 if not 3 unsucbscribes following.
Fact: If you keep this up, performance and scalability of this list will
go way down.
Fact: If fact 2 occurs, I also will unsubscribe.
Lets talk about firewalls and security and leave the bullshit for the
tradeshows and offline arguments.
Your decision.
Peter Crowe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clyde Williamson [SMTP:clydew @
ee .
net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 1997 11:51 PM
> To: Billy Verreynne; firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM
> Subject: Re: NT as a central intranet firewall
>
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> At 07:44 AM 12/11/97 +0200, you wrote:
> >Clyde Williamson said:
> ><snip>
> >>Either, NT goes through a major evolution (hint: cut and paste the
> >>kernal and OS code from Linux), or Infrastructure will come
> crashing
> >>down around our ears.....
> >
> ><flame>
> >Crap. Fact : many businesses *are* using NT as a mission critical
> platform.
>
> Many people smoke too, that doesn't mean it's good for them. Just
> because alot of people do something doesn't mean it's right.
>
> >Fact : NT is as robust as any Unix version.
>
> Fact: Apparently you're working from the Mars Probe. The below
> example pits UNIX in a very tough position, and NT running it's own
> software. I'd hope to God that if I wrote the OS and the server and
> the program I could get it to work as well as a high end, high demand
> service from multiple vendors. There is no proof in the below story
> that proves that NT is as robust as any UNIX version.
>
> Fact: I was at a Microsoft conference today, twice they had to admit
> that their product was inferior to 1)UNIX and 2)Any Firewall product
> (for their Proxy Server)
>
> As a matter of fact to quote:
>
> " While we may not have the stability of a Solaris Server, our
> interface makes up for it by the easing Server Management." (In other
> words- " We suck, but if your lazy, you can get us to run sometimes.)
>
> " MS Proxy is a solution for a small company that cannot afford a
> firewall."
>
> If this is the confidence that their own sales force puts into the
> product, how am I supposed to have faith in it?
>
> M$ has it's place, it works well as a server for small companies.
> It's adaquate as a small Web Server or Mail Server. From a supprot
> standpoint, I'd rather have 95 on the end users desk. But, if there
> is a need for real horsepower/reliablity and security(since Firewalls
> is what we should be talking about) M$ doesn't make the cut.
>
> I have worked quite a bit with NT... mostly because we do alot of
> consulting with companies who have an existing infrastructure and an
> internal IS dept. And I agree it can be made stable, but to clainm
> that it's as robust as any NT platform is a bit far fetched.
>
>
> BTW- MS announced that NEC using NT just set a record in the number
> of transactions per minute 14,900. I was impressed, until they later
> admitted that they had MS engineers at NEC for 2 years and NEC
> engineers at MS for two years customizing, rewriting code and all
> around jury-rigging the system for this one benchmark. Still, 14,900
> is a record... Until we then find out that it was a record for NT on
> an INTEL processor. Other systems had done over that two years
> ago.... So when the smoke cleared from their exciting announcement...
> we had nothing but a marketing gimmick. Herein lies my distaste for
> Microsoft.
>
> >Want to dispute these? How about running Oracle Parallel Server on a
> >$1,000,000 MPP platform and having MPP nodes just fall over
> *without* any
> >explanation - nothing on the console and nothing in any log. Now
> tell me
> >that Unix is more robust that NT. Bull. We have NT boxes that run
> everything
> >from Exchanges, large file servers, to application servers - and
> seldom have
> >a crash. And the few times that there are crashes it's usually
> hardware
> >related.
> >
> >I fail to understand why this NT vs. Unix issue keeps on cropping
> up. You
> >match the technology with the business requirements and business
> >limitations - and then you do your best with that technology. I work
> with NT
> >and Unix every single day. Yes, there are times when I curse
> Microsoft for
> >not having a proper NT command line scripting language and for
> having a
> >stupid GUI that gets in the way when you want to work with the o/s,
> as there
> >are times when I curse Unix when the damn Distributed TCP/IP does
> not work
> >properly and stuff up the router tables. But NT address business AND
> >technical requirements that Unix can not meet and vice versa.
> >
> >It seems to me that most "experts" around here base their views on
> NT on the
> >few times they worked with it. If that's the case, then Netware is
> the
> >shittiest operating system IMHO. ;-)
> ></flame>
> >
> >regards,
> >Billy
> >
> >
> >
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>
> "My uncle always said that there was more
> than one way to skin a cat....
> I guess that explains the fur pants."
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