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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 492.01+1.3%Nov 28 9:30 AM EST

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To: jim shiau who wrote (9672)7/26/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: Mike Milde   of 74651
 
<< It isn't the hardware but softwares run on Unix are expensive. I used to be a Unix software developer, and I paid around 50k for a C++ compiler, a Sybase DB, and Frame word processor, and a purify debuger. >>

Please compare apples and apples. How many developer seats, etc.? What was inadequate about the cheaper alternatives that run under many flavors of UNIX? How much of a load did you have to support? Was this a single user, lightly loaded system, or did you have to scale it to many servers and thousands of simultaneous users???

Mike
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