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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Kashish King who wrote (8456)3/22/1998 5:13:00 AM
From: Loft Guy  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
This issue about thick or thin misses that there are two distinct
markets. The business enviroment can have low cost minimal delay
servers. The business enviroment would like to be then because the support costs of thick where each machine can be the source of
viruses and other problems is way too much compared to the local secure server. The home enviroment will probably always be thick because an extra few meg of disk space and maybe a pirated program
from work is far cheaper than paying for each usage of a program (download plus usage cost) in the thin model.

I have yet to hear of a support group that would prefer supporting
a cluster of win95/NT machines over a cluster of unix machines. But
then i have also yet to hear of users wanting the security of unix
over the stupidity of use of win95 machines.

Sun and MSFT are not yet really directly competing. They are currently fighting over the point in the power spectrum that you
become an obvious unix user instead of a win95/NT user. Sun is
trying to claim that any user wanting a stable platform wants solaris
while MSFT is trying to claim everything under 4 or so processors
as win95/NT. Both are comfortable in their own realms and now the
issue is really over borders.
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