Hmm.
I run Win9X at home, but not at the office. At the office, I *have to* multitask and run very large paged jobs, and NT et alia frankly suck at this. No, I can't give you stats, it's just an observation, but a 256 MB Irix box (6 yrs old) consistently outperformed a 512 MB NT box -- in spite of its lower processor speed. NT just kept stepping on itself, and god forbid I should wanna read an SI thread whilst a 133,000 node simulation was running...what I'm saying is, SUNW ain't goin' after the word processing market, so that the OS I run on my home PC has little to do with Sun's prospects. Though I am contemplating linux/Starsoft in the near future...
And CE as an appliance OS? HA HA HA! Its power management sucks, its memory foot print is huge (compared to RIMM, Psion, and the Palm OS, and even the new small java VM's). The RIMM two-way pager runs WEEKS on a AA-cell...Hello! Even MSFT doesn't have enough cash to buy this victory. Did you see the bytecode demos of the Palm OS at JavaOne? CE is history within two years, MAX, in my opinion...as soon as HP and the other MSFT psycophants pull their heads out and see that it's like trying to cut butter with a chainsaw. Companies like NOK, MOT, QCOM, and SUNW are gonna set the new protocols, and MSFT has done nothing to form alliances in those quarters. Bye, Bill. |
