Ed,
There is only small portion of NT (4%-5%) used in enterprise when
compared to Sun's Solaris, HP/UX, and IBM/AIX. Rhapsody is an Unix,
which represents a major portion of enterprise market, and hence any
software exists on Sun, HP and IBM's Unix systems, it will be ported
with a little time (e.g. I believe it only takes Netscape 2-3 months
to do the porting to Rhapsody). Only thing Apple needs to do after
Rhapsody is available is to market it into Federal Governments, like
Oracle and Sun did several years ago. Besides, Apple still needs to
make its best efforts on mutlimedia and education markets for
Rhapsody.
Nothing will be changed overnight, hence, be patient to wait its
arrival. It takes 5-6 years for NT to reach 4-5% of total enterprise
market.
When G4 and Rhapsody are both available, it will threaten not only
NT, but also Sun's Solaris due to Rhapsody/G4 price/performance
superiority.
Phil |
