<Oh, please, Reg, don't tell me that this is a real choice in the corporate market. Please be objective. You know that companies don't buy OSes, they buy specific software to do specific functions, and then only have a choice from among the OSes that run that software. In most cases, most of the software they need is only available for MSFT OSes, and not on Apple, Sun, or SGI. BEOS?>
Like Applix Spreadsheets for Unix? How about the entire Applix productivity suite for Unix? Wingz productivity suite for Unix?, Smartsuite for OS/2, Excel for the Mac, Word for the Mac, the entire Office suite for the Mac? Illustrator, Photopaint and Pagemaker for the Mac, all of the high end Sun and SGI Unix apps, etc? How about NSCP Navigator for 12 different platorms? You still have not proven your point. Nearly every category of productivity app is available in at least two other OSs besides Windows. Specialized apps are a product of special situation coding, and the development environments are widely available for those environments as well. MSFT even makes Visual C++ (Dan will tell you:-) for Unix.
As I have said before, there is no lack of competition in these fields. The competition lost, period. |
