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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual Backup - can't see restore - OFFTOPIC

2008-05-01 22:54:55
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual Backup - can't see restore - OFFTOPIC
From: "Peacock Dennis - dpeaco" <Dennis.Peacock AT acxiom DOT com>
To: "Martin, Jonathan" <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>, <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 21:24:08 -0500

LOL!!!!  Ever seen a Windows box with 400 Terabytes of disk attached to it? Me no think so. J

Ever seen a Windows box that can run 1100 backup per day for a total of 2.7 PB per month? We eat Windows boxes for a snack. J

 

Thank You,

Dennis Peacock

EBCA

Acxiom Corporation

 


From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:10 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual Backup - can't see restore - OFFTOPIC

 

You Unix guys are just too easy!  “unscrupulous business practices”?  Ah, the hubris of the defeated. =P

 

-Jonathan

 

PS: Looking forward to the retort. ;)

 


From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner AT water DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:53 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual Backup - can't see restore - OFF TOPIC

 

Funny that.

 

UNIX has been going to “succumb” any day now ever since 1970. 

 

NT was introduced specifically to try to take the UNIX niche but failed in that attempt (however it did succeed in taking over Novell’s fileserver niche).   NT and subsequent Windoze flavors failed because they are simply not scalable enough.  

 

Interestingly the UNIX Clone, Linux, is taking market share away from Windoze both in the desktop and the server arenas to the point that Dell is selling laptops with Ubuntu now and has been selling servers with RedHat for quite a while.

 

Using what were judged to be monopolistic practices by the EU courts and were on there way to being done so by US courts before W killed the DOJ anti-trust action doesn’t mean you were adopted due to superior technology but rather due to unscrupulous business practices.  

 

The great thing about UNIX/Linux is that it does offer choice.  SCO UNIX by the way was a good OS.  What killed it was a combination of free Linux and FreeBSD in the niche they were in along with poor business practices.  It had nothing to do with Windows as most of its life was AFTER Windows was already available.

 

Now lets talk about Vista which seems to be flying as high as your average lead balloon – so much so that MicroSloth is actually starting to talk about “extending” the life of XP.

 

 


From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:38 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual Backup - can't see restore

 

Good - so when all the paltry "UNIX" distributions finally succumb to the mighty Windows there won't be any debate over what name to put on the tombstone.  Windows has market share, which is far more important than any standard.  If you think a recognized standard or some other piece of paper is going to keep you in business then you had better go talk to SCO.  In the mean time, I'd keep selling solutions to people's problems.  =P

 

-Jonathan

 


From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:58 PM
To: Curtis Preston
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual Backup - can't see restore

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Curtis Preston <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com> wrote:

After all these years, it still cracks me up that NetBackup calls Unix
"Standard," which makes Windows and all other platforms, "non-standard."


So what's your point?  :-)

Unix is a multi-vendor standard recognized by both ISO and IEEE.  Windows is not a standard from any standards body that I'm aware of.  Even its trademark is disputed in legal circles.

   .../Ed


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