Phil, No-one will risk Rhapsody in an enterprise role until it has shown a few years robust use. Some big enterprise people will in fact set up test systems with Rhapsody and test it to the limit and try to make it fault/crash etc., and they will, and it will get fixed and in a couple of years a few feet will go in the water. By that time NT will be well ahead in enterprises. The Suns, HPs, etc will change or die, as MSFT will force NT forward and will spend billions on perfecting the program. Only IBM or the entirety of Unix all together on a single project will over come NT. It will win as long as Apple, Sun Hp, IBM, etc all run their own disparate Unix versions.
It makes some sense for them all to unite under Rhapsody. They will not, big corporations on a proprietary kick are as dubm as they come. Look at Scully, Amelio, Jobs... dumb where unity is concerned... Unix will stay and die fragmented.
The real functions of Unix will continue, but their share will head down, down, down, like Apples did.
And they all think they are right and I am wrong.
They may be richer then me, but they are not smarter.
Bill |
