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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Stormweaver who wrote (17878)7/15/1999 2:04:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
I think you've overstated things a bit, but I can't deny that the diversity of vendors in the X86 domain is a benefit; that's part of the reason the newer Sun machines have PCI slots. Nor can I claim that Sun is perfect (nor is Unix, although "archaic" is a loaded word; don't forget that much of what is in Windows got there by way of DOS, and is no joy to work with, either).

But remember how we got to this point in the discussion. You claim Sun is "proprietary iron," and I claim that Wintel is where the "proprietary" adjective applies. Note that there are a handful of OS's that run on Sun "iron," and that there are plenty of porting issues even among the various flavors of Windows (or even between versions of, e.g., NT).

But I will credit you with a well-crafted argument just this once. ;)

JMHO.
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