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The year was 1998. The testing was for new technology for the next generation of Enterprise servers for the Justice department...
"ALL" of the technology was beta technology I witnessed at each of these companies R&D center, to determine the next generation of systems. Now at that time Microsoft was beta testing NT 5, which later was renamed "XP". The statistics showed that Windows was no match for Unix as a server...As a matter of fact Microsoft uses Unix servers, and is developing their own version of Unix to be a player in that market.
Now Windows has grown leaps and bounds since 1995...and could be the IT solution for a lot of companies, but I have been blessed to work on a lot of projects, where money was no object, and the price difference between systems was justified by performance and usage.
Windows does not have a OS that would run on the equivalent of a Sun E-10000...Which is one of the most powerful systems...And they still have not found a solution for systems with over 32 processors. They are 100% idle, the OS can not access them.
Now A lot of companies can not afford a server of this quality or price, and could use Windows and their products for their IT solution, but it won't be on government servers...cost analysts say for that kind of traffic, you will use Unix.