I "get it," JC.
I really don't think you do. In fact, if I were a venture capitalist, our meeting would end early. Perhaps you've already had that experience.
Companies and pundits have been writing off MSFT for
years, ever since Windows 1.0, which looked like it would be a dismal failure.
There *was no 'Windows 1.0' Reg. Windows 286 or whatever was run time. Anyway, can you point to these companies and pundits, or are you as well making *that up as you go along?
Last night I caught the the first part of 'Hans Christian Andersen' w/ Danny Kaye. In the beginning, he tells the story about the king who had no clothes. It reminded me of 4 years ago, right before I started my two fisted buying of SUNW. In the story, one (1) boy, and one boy only speaks out about the fact that the king is naked. For me that was Scott McNealy.
Five years before that (pre web), I was quite active with DOS network development and BBS/Net program development. I have a deep and broad understanding of what Windows is all about on a server (yet alone client). I have distain for M$ going back to waring against the legions of SHILLS they sent into Fido and Usenet advancing Windows in place of OS/2 (and I was never even an OS/2 user!).
You're quite obviously (albeit passionately) mistaken as to what the past 4 years have been about. Microsoft isn't even in the story! The story is UNIX. Perhaps it always has been.
I have much more to lose by MSFT winning than you do, yet somehow I am much more reticent about dismissing MSFT's successes that you are. That should clue you in to something.
You've already lost. M$ has lost. Thank God. We would ALL lose in a world that actually *had 'Windows everywhere'.
Go SUNW!
-JCJ |
