422. Amit Bapat
January 7, 1999
amit.bapat@usa.net
It would be interesting to look at the statistics of the ISP OS Environment as of today. This data was presented by Sean Maloney, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Intel Corp. in ISPCON'98, San Jose, CA on October 1, 1998. Primary ISP OS:
Solaris/SPARC 39%
NT 4.0 21%
HP-UX 9%
Linux 9%
FreeBSD 7%
BSDI 7%
Others 8%
Secondary ISP OS:
NT 4.0/3.51 46%
Linux 15%
Solaris/SPARC 14%
FreeBSD 5%
Others 20%
It is evident that industry does not trust NT for more critical tasks, but is ready to use it for secondary task that's why the Secondary ISP OS has major share by NT. One should also note that with Linux getting better and better everyday, it is going to be most attractive OS for the ISP business.
I vote for Linux.

421. Manjunath Sampath
January 7, 1999
manju123@hotmail.com
Unix. This is the most stable O/S which has been running for several years. Windows NT is buggy and Linux's future is not very clear/has little application support.

420. Snoop Baron
January 7, 1999
baron@snoop.com
There is no choice go with Linux or *BSD or * UNIX.

419. Rajan
January 7, 1999
rajvan@hotmail.com
It would be a fool who would opt for NT. Can't compare it UNIX. Print and file server with so called "ease of use" is becoming outdated with Linux User Interface. Unix has evolved for 3 decades that has produced the latest generation of Solaris 7 supporting 64 processors per node capable of support memory and load the growing ISP requires. ISP's require the basic reliability, availability and serviceability which ONLY Unix gives. NT is no way near RAS. MS is just like a beautiful girl with broken promises.

418. Divyesh Desai
January 7, 1999
djdesai@hotmail.com
I prefer to use Linux for Intel PC. I would like people to be aware that it is ultimately Unix. I do not vote for the reliability because being Unix Administrator I have observed the crashing of Disks. As worked with VMS Admin, I always recommend DEC/VMS for technicality & reliability. DEC products are the BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, Digital marketing was poor.

417. Amit Amar
January 7, 1999
amit.amar@usa.net
Its going to be Linux....
now thats what my instinct says....or maybe coz its free

416. Venky
January 7, 1999
venkykc@hotmail.com
I feel Unix is still the best. But have some doubt about Linux that it might beat Unix(in future). I have used both the systems to a good extent. Linux was simply superb for it's performance, portability and even it's architecture and so many things. Of course Unix (esp. Solaris) is robust and nobody can disagree this.
About NT I'm just using a work station (which is ok),but don't know much about NT server.

415. Bharathi Palle
January 7, 1999
palle@ece.vill.edu
UNIX is the way to go because it is more robust than NT anyday anyplace anytime. Linux is a brother of UNIX.

414. Vinit Carpenter
January 7, 1999
carpente@execpc.com
Linux.. God I hope it's Linux.

413. Stanley Almeida
January 7, 1999
st_ambrose@yahoo.com
Unix

412. Rama G. Mekala
January 7, 1999
rgmekala@yahoo.com
My bet is on Unix because it is well proven, well established, well stabilized, well marketed, well serviced even though it is a bit expensive.

411. Ashok
January 7, 1999
ashokpr@hotmail.com
NT.Who says NT is not reliable? ISP's should seriously think of NT before any other platform.

410. Ramesh K
January 7, 1999
rameshkalluri@hotmail.com
Windows NT is the best platform to run any kind of software(for ex: word processor, database or any CAE/CAD/CAM applications).It's efficient & cost effective.It's performance & Graphical User Interface is very appealing to customers. There's no match for Windows NT platform in the new millenium. We can develop any application very fast with so many tools available.

409. John Abreau
January 7, 1999
jabr@blu.org
Linux and Solaris are both good choices from a technical perspective. Both are reliable systems. NT is a poor choice if you want to provide a reliable service for your customers. From a financial perspective, NT has a high cost of ownership, and it's even more costly to switch away from NT once you discover it was a poor choice. As for choosing between Solaris and Linux, there are valid arguments for both sides. There's an easy migration path from Linux to Solaris. Personally, my rule of thumb is to build servers with Linux, and if I find that the server requires higher-end hardware, I then migrate it to Solaris.

408. Kasi Narayanaswamy
January 7, 1999
nkasi@hotmail.com
Windows NT is my bet.
Microsoft is going to liquidate other platforms like Unix as it did with Novell Netware. So let us side with a winner. About technical superiority of NT, it is neither here nor there. Same applies to Unix and Linux too. So take a "safe" option. (ie) NT

407. Ravi Kolluru
January 7, 1999
ravi@candy.bellcore.com
Windows NT

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