Re: Vista
- From: "Peter McMurray" <excalibur21@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 23:30:05 GMT
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Hi Tony
At no time have I suggested migrating servers to Vista. In fact if I have
say a 5 user system I would not even consider putting anything other than
Windows server in. However there are a lot of two or three person outfits
that only use data entry on one computer and the rest just do mail etc.
These are Vista targets and yes I would like to use MV with my platform of
choice after 30 years being D3 . What do these people do at the moment
they tumble around with things like MYOB and get nothing out of it, and yes
some of these people turn very large numbers certainly in the tens of
millions.
I have said before I know of at least one billion dollar company in that
very situation. Before anyone leaps in just think about an organisation
consisting of a lot of small outlets and remember that broadband is rarely a
24/7 option.
In fact I had a good laugh at the claim of nearly 4 years without
rebooting, obviously utopia as far as weather and electricity is concerned.
I doubt that anyone in Sydney has that good a supply certainly Riverina
thunder storms or Tasmanian hurricanes off the Southern Ocean would soon see
that off (anyone in any doubt should ask the boss of Oracle as he was in a
yacht in the middle of Bass strait during a particularly good one). The
simple fact is that the FSI survives this and Windows comes up again without
a hassle whereas the VME drops its bundle. I have read Ross's tirade, much
as I sympathise , I think that it is far more likely that he was tired and
his love of Linux blinkered him as I have never had such an issue.
Disregarding the question of why on earth one would wish to extend the VME -
too many big prints perhaps - I am quite sure that the FSI account is
perfectly OK unless his disk is jiggered or somebody loaded patches without
turning D3 off. Yes I have had both happen and yes I have had to recover
the VME umpteen times during the '90s when we installed Unix and have never
had the problem since the joy of Windows Server and the FSI.
The simple fact of life is that the goalposts have been moved and Vista is
what is on the desktop and people in small businesses do not want multiple
machines with disparate operating systems. I may have to reconsider that
with the fantastic job done by Parallels combined with the power of modern
machines, so I am considering using Microsofts offering and running D3 on
Windows server or XP on the same machine as Vista but that needs some
testing and increases the investment.
Peter McMurray
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