Re: Windows Integration and Longhorn

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