Klaus, you're misrepresnting Justin's comments
Klaus wrote:
> I haven't ever really heard the sales pitch that "well,
> it's poor technology, it's unstable, and the performance
> sucks, but you want it, we'll sell it to you."
First my belief (and I'm sure Justin's) is that any NT product SGI builds will be of the best quality, rich technology, and excellent performance for the market space it's in. It may be that we are unhappy with the quality of the operating system from Microsoft (it may be), but that is the user's choice, the user's voice, and the user's perogative. SGI has built for years machines no won else could touch and created the market that made 3D workstation de riguer (sp?) as part of the creative and design process. Moore's law has caught up with them, and now what once could be done only for $100,000+ can be done for ~ $5,000. A that price point, the masses get involved, masses of buyers, and masses of ISV's -- and those masses have chosen NT -- oh, well. I may not like it, you may not like it, but there it is. You can't sell hamburgers to vegetarians.
My guess is that SGI will be provide more and better choices for that 3D desktop space. SGI has a deep understanding of the user's needs and the underlying technology. Given that I find it difficult to believe that SGI's NT market product (whatever it is) will not be extremely well received.
Now, can SGI execute, market etc. -- that's the $64 question, and one the next CEO will answer -- anybody got Jim Clark's phone number?
unofficially as always
john |
