>The mainframe market and the PC market are two COMPLETELY different
> horses.. The latter is a gullible and stupid one,,
Agree.
>The only reason Wintel has such a strong hold of the PC market, is
>because the general public doesn't understand how computers work, and
>they buy what everyone else has..
I disagree. I'm coming at you as a reputable consultant of 15 years thats involved with decision makers from PCs to main frames. Managers are fed up with paying high prices for main frames and are looking for cost effective solutions. Granted - you can't process 18 million credit card transactions a night on WINTEL (yet) but there are a lot of systems being rehosted onto client/server, mostly Unix at this time. But one of my current customers that has about 4,000 Suns and several big main frames is starting to buy NT boxes. Reason: Better OS than Solaris and the hardware is MUCH cheaper. Another large customer of mine has ridden SGI's hardware wave since '85 (which coincidently is when I jumped in on SGI) is now buying NT. Once again, cheaper, better OS. Fundamentally (as a programmer and decision maker) I think Unix in its current state is one heck of a hack job since its mutated over many years while NT is is pretty clean. The downside on NT at this point is the hardware its available on is limited but that will change.
> I personally use Windows, but only because every competitive >product has
> been slammed out of the arena..
... simply because they don't have the features or support of NT. Developers are are attracted to NT and Unix because they can develop the core code once and easily port it to a bunch of hardware. OS/2 and Apple flop and will continue to flop. Software developers are going to develop on the platform on which they can sell the most units. If that spans hardware, thats better (another example of this: Oracle)
> In the mainframe world, the people who buy systems, choose >carefully, and
> intelligently..
Agree. But they aren't going to pay the price if there is a good
alternative. Their shareholders will shoot them wholesale.
>This means that there will be very tight >competition
> and Microsoft will not be able to waltz in and take over..
>
Competition with whom? OS/2 and apple??? MS is going after Unix.
> Personally, I think that Microsoft has such a bad name in the >Techy world
> that most managers will consider it an ego blow to succumb to >Microsofts
> hand..
Microsoft has had a bad name but I'd say in the past 18 months it has
started to improve. Smart managers make cold and calculating decisions about development platforms based upon financials - not emotions.
> If I was in charge of systems, I would stay as far away from > Wintel
> just on principle :)
>
> EVERYONE LET'S BRING MICROSOFT DOWN!!!
> JOIN THE REVOLUTION ;(
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