[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:17:19 +0000, ChrisQ wrote:

> On 08/18/12 14:43, Paul Sture wrote:
> 
> 
>> A similar message got through to our senior management who were IBM
>> oriented.  Our IT manager was obviously taking notice for he asked for
>> ball park figures for an HP-UX system.  He'd also mentioned NT as
>> possible replacement for VMS which had us greatly concerned.  This was
>> just before NT4 was released.
>>
>> One of the first things I noticed with NT4 was the general advice to
>> boot into DOS for burning CDs.  That alone made me question its
>> suitability for replacing those VMS systems.
>>
>>
> Even with sp6, nt4 wasn't too difficult to provoke a blue screen.
> Nothing like as good as vms at the time, nor the functionality. Later
> versions were much more robust, but not in the same class as vms.
> Different sort of application and users...

To be honest I only had 2 or 3 blue screens with my first NT4 box.  One 
was down to a flaky driver and was cured by using another driver.  The 
others were caused by loose cables after installing hardware.

The difference was that I had had the box custom built for NT4 by someone 
who knew what he was doing and used components on the hardware 
compatibility list.

-- 
Paul Sture