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Not sure how many actual customers ran NT on these things. (big mssql shops?) But DEC had also successfully mode-switched into x86 servers and services. At one
by flomo 5y ago
Not sure how many actual customers ran NT on these things. (big mssql shops?) But DEC had also successfully mode-switched into x86 servers and services. At one point, the commodity server sales leaders were Compaq, HP, DEC -- who all merged together.
- rwmj 5y agoWe ran NT on something quite similar to the article, hosting a large Lotus Notes(!) database which ran a Hotmail-like public email service. Unfortunately the system was rented. So when we rewrote the service and moved it off to Linux machines costing a tiny fraction of the price, the beefy 3 core Alpha was returned, rather than letting me install Linux on it to see how it could really perform :-/