Mark Thomasson wrote:
>
> Is your series of emails more of an indictment of Exchange or an
> illustration of what happens
> when you rollout server software in an environment where it seams no one
> knows NT well and apparently no one onsite that understands whats the
> demands and feature set of Exchange. A poorlly planned rollout of software
> on any platform would have the same results
I will say this. I've had to deal with NT on my laptop, mail servers
and web server. The NT folks we have are very knowledgeable. Everyone
of our servers has gone down a number of times. No idea why, their fine
when the reboot. They either lock up or crash. You do not have these
kind of problems on Unix boxes. NT is a piece of shit. I think it's
memory management is screwed.
Microsoft will tell you not to run multiple critical processes on a
single NT box. Like, don't run Exchange with a web server product. OR
don't run a rdbms and a mail service. Why? I believe it's because the
memory management thing. You can run Oracle, Apache, Sendmail all on a
single Unix box and it will just chug along. The other thing is, when
you migrate from the Unix world to the NT world, get ready to drop some
cash for new hardware, because the same hardware that you were using as
your sendmail mail server will not cut it as an Exchange server. NT is
a resource hog.
I've had to reload NT 4 times on my laptop. Why? Because NT is not
ready. If you add enough hardware/software to this OS, it can not
handle it. I've got a good 15 years experience with both administering
and using unix boxes. I've never seen the problems on those boxes we
have had on these NT boxes over the past 4 years. I no longer run NT on
my laptop.
You can talk about a properly planned rollout all you want. You can be
as prepared as possible, but if you're going on NT, expect to have some
down time. If you tax the system at all, it's going to happen.
With NT, if you really tax the thing, it locks up. Unix will slow down
to a crawl, but the bloody thing will keep crawling.
Our corporate Exchange servers have maintenance downtime all the time.
It's generally scheduled late evenings on weekends, but what's with
this? I never received messages that my email server would be down when
we were running on Unix boxes.
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I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
Y2K...
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