As for Graham, he said at this point if he needed more NT, he wouldn't wait for NT 5.0 but would buy NT 4.0.
"In the middle of the process, it became clear that NT couldn't provide NDS functionality, " Miller says.
If users want to use Raw Iron database servers in place of SQL Server on NT, it isn't much different than using Unix or Linux underneath, he said.
First, the Linux customer base will spread through the herd, but unlike the Windows NT customer base, it didn't originate with the herd.
"They want the enterprise to have excellent Windows NT support, but they don't necessarily want to be the ones to provide it, " said Michael Silver, senior research analyst with the Gartner Group, in Stamford, Conn.
Observers also say there has been a perception that Net-Ware couldn't handle transactions as efficiently as Windows NT or Unix because it lacked pre-emptive processing.
For now, with a network of 1, 000 PCs and NT on the back end, the company isn't considering changing course.
Karan Khanna, Microsoft's lead product manager for NT Server, explained that applications that run under NT 4.0 will run under Windows 2000 if they don't access the new features.
With the infrastructure UPS already has in place, it wouldn't make sense to switch to Oracle databases in a non-NT environment, he said.
Moving from the NT server field to Unix, as Compaq intends to do, won't result in a mixed sales pitch from the company, Yeates said.
Another Windows NT user said he was interested in Oracle's position, but he hadn't heard enough about the project to judge whether it would be worthwhile or not to purchase the Raw Iron Oracle 8i servers.
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