It’s entertaining to read the debate on ZDNet regarding whether Windows is great or whether it sucks ass. What’s especially great is that I’m working in a Unix-only environment this week. The systems are SGI Irix boxes, Sun Enterprise servers, and so on. They all work seamlessly together, and not a one of them has been rebooted for as long as anyone can remember. The purpose of my visit to Omaha – observe an upgrade to a critical information node on this intelligence system. During this upgrade, the system was up and running non-stop and only the applications being updated were shut down. When the upgrade was complete (1.5 hours), the system was not rebooted, but just had one script run which restarted all the programs that were shut down. The queue of work was waiting, the system got to work, and everything continued as before. When a bug was discovered, the system continued to work on its vital national intelligence while the programmers fixed the bug, restarted the one program which was affected, and the users never saw a blip.
Imagine doing that with Windows. Ha!
We had a discussion about the DoD and Windows versions. For some reason (they claim its cheaper but TCO has to be higher), the Defense Department has decided that all non-critical systems use Windows NT. Naturally, the critical systems use Unix. Those non-critical systems use NT 4.51 for the most part. Many sites are beginning test installations of Windows 2000, while XP is the new standard in the normal consumer world. DoD doesn’t want to trust their information to XP for years yet. hehe
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