“NT’s propensity to crash costs organizations in a number of
ways, from the cost of installing redundant hardware as backups, to
the cost if idle workers during reboots, to the cost of poor
customer service if systems fail during business transactions,
analysts said…”
“I’m astonished that people run their business on a system
[Windows NT] that may not be awake for the week,” said Anne Thomas,
analyst at the Patricia Seybold Group in Boston. “It can take up to
30 minutes to reboot the servers, databases, and
applications…”
“Such measures are needed because Unix-based platforms have
proven to be much more robust than NT. “Unix systems are generally
a lot more solid and don’t tend to go down as often,” Thomas said.
“Some haven’t been cycled for years.”