I didn't know that SUNW sells wordprocessors/spreadsheets and such. However, I use third party desktop s/w (such as Interleaf, Lotus, etc.) on my sparc 20, and I tell you they are by far better than MS Office. Plus, I can still run most windows apps on my Sparc using a tool called Wabi, but I just have no reason to because the equivalent Unix apps are by far superior to their Windows counterparts.
Additionally, desktop applications are only one of the uses. As far as engineering and scientific applications, most software is not even available for WINTEL machines,mainly because they don't have the horsepower required to run those apps.
As far as the server side, I am not an expert, but it seems to me that even a server crashing once a month is unacceptable in a corporate environment. I know it would be unacceptable in my workplace.
I did read your earlier posts, but I still don't get your point.
These are my points:
- Most of the profits in the computer maket are made from business and corporate customers, not the consumers and household.
- Sun (and its third party software vendors) have the superior products in servers, OS, hardware, desktop, Engineering/scientific areas. (I am sure I left out some other areas). This superiority is both in quality and Price/Performance.
- MS has the superior product in nothing, but has the monopoly only on their own products (Windows OS) of course.
Now if we agree that corporate and business managers and users will eventually recognize these facts, it follows that they will eventually begin to switch away from MS and toward SUNW.
Of course MS will continue to make nickel and dimes in the household computer market.
I would like to be proven wrong and sell my 5000 shares of SUN. But I just don't see what your point is. |
