Scumbria, I don't know where you live, but there is an ad by Sun Micro in the San Jose Mercury News this morning that you'd love. It's three full pages and one of those that's mostly white paper background with only a few words in big black letters. First page:
THINKING OF RUNNING YOUR CRITICAL APPS ON NT?
ISN'T THERE ENOUGH WORLD SUFFERING?
PICTURE OF SALLY STRUTHERS
Next 2 pages:
INTRODUCING SOLARIS 7, THE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE NETWORK AGE, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Sun pretty outrageous and irreverent, as usual. Irreverent to what? Nobody, I guess, with IBM, HP, FJ, Sun, SCO and everyone else rushing to support UNIX, or variants of it like Solaris on PA RISC, SPARC, IBM RS---- and Merced, who does care that much about NT? It's beginning to look very clear that Microsoft is going to be outside the candy store looking in when it comes to the vast majority of 64 bit computing, even when Merced, the chip from their old "partner" is shipping.
Tony |
