'It had always been envisaged that we would go to Unix but it's now being rushed through. ... In a lot of ways I would have preferred to have gone straight to Unix at the very beginning of the project, for several reasons. One being that we wouldn't have the situation now where we're asking for a lot more money and not giving them anything extra for that money. ... It would have been nice if we'd gone straight away. ... Because Netware is not that stable, I mean it's nice and it's got a lot of use out there as a fileserver but that's what it is, a fileserver, and it's not designed in any way to run other software on it which is what you're doing by attempting to run a different server on it. ... And driving Sybase, at the end of the day Sybase doesn't even have true direct control over the disk which is quite important for a database server. It's having to go through Netware for disk access and it's having to go through Netware for its network access and through Netware for its..for everything basically. You would expect that of a good operating system but Netware was not designed for that sort of thing. ... 'X042 page 001.02 (tape 04.2.01) Matt Notes/Tape 14/06/94
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