You are wrong on most of you explanation. Window NT has only about
10% of enterprise's workstation market share, the rest (90%) are all
Unix-based workstations. Sun Micro is No. 1, HP-UX is No. 2, Silicon
Graphics may be #3, then IBM's AIX/RS6000, then probably DEC's
Ultra. You mentioned only DEC, which means you are not in this
field and are not familar with so much detail regarding the market
shares. Believe me, I have been in the software development area
for about 20 years, and am currently still working in this field.
I perfectly know what is hot and what is not.
Rhapsody is not a new Unix-based OS, it was derived from NeXT's
OpenStep, which has more than 10 years experience and has been in the
market since then. The performance/price will be reduced
significantly compared to NeXT box, probably only one eighth of
NeXT's, and performance will be much better when using high-end
PowerPC chips, hence, it will be a super market-driven product.
When people in government or private industry find out the porting
from Sun OS to Rhspsody is much easier and stabler than to Window NT,
then lots of COTS and GOTS products will be gradually ported to
Rhapsody platform. Based on my experience, it is more likely that
will be the case, provided that Rhapsody is on time delivered next
July. Remember it is the performance and price that drive the market.
You can bet that users will find it very handy and crispy when huge
object-oriented software ported to Rhapsody and running.
IMHO
Phil C. Lee |
