Re: Windows Integration and Longhorn

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup. Think about problems with Windows servers. Something like 50 to 75% 
of the issues I deal with are some program/driver/module conflicting 
with some other program/driver/module.  Cut down the list and you get 
fewer issues.  This is why so many windows programs demand their own 
servers - they don't play nice with others.

- Larry

ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I never thought about it in terms of the pared down drivers, but that makes
> alot of sense.  On our IXSs we have had WAY fewer of the intermittent
> glitches/crashes/blue screens/reboots that we see occasionally with the 6
> other standalone x-Series boxes we have running.
>
>                                                                            
>              Larry Bolhuis                                                 
>
> Exactly.  To your point of reliability one of the biggies for IXS is
> that the number of driver issues is essentially *zero. IBM tests all
> possible combinations of the one video driver, one LAN driver, and one
> Disk driver. (Let's see that's um, one?!)  They can test the dickens out
> of that and assure that they all work in harmony. Go to external stuff
> and the potential combinations are legion.  Plus the are purpose built
> reliable hardware living inside a well cooled and reliably powered
> cabinet  It don't get much better than that.
>
> When you consider the average Intel CPU putzes along at 4% busy the fact
> that they only come in 2Ghz models is nearly a 'so what'.
>
>  - Larry
>