>IMHO the split possibility is getting weaker and weaker. The Supreme court rejected the offer to take on the case and sent it to the appeals court just this week.

I think you are right. Honestly, I don't think that MS should get split up. Yes, it would be great for developers because they could have access to more of the "Windows secrets", but I don't think that we should punish a company for being too successful.

>This is a common complaint I read about on the Linux newsgroups. FWIW, here at work we have tens of NT servers that don't have those problems. Some run SQL Server, some IIS, some other third party server software without a hitch.

I think that crashing is more of a problem when the NT machine is acting like a workstation: developing, compiling, browsing the internet, email, etc. I know a guy who runs an exchange server that says he has to reboot it frequently, but maybe he just doesn't know what he is doing. =) But then again, NT isn't very scalable.