While it is true that NT 4.0 is not as stable or scalable as SUNOS, by the time there are a significant number of Java applications for this market to be significant, MSFT will have NT 5.0 or 6.0 or something, which probably will be much more stable. Also, remember that MSFTs plan is to get developers to create Java applications with Captive-X in it, and thus this gives them a proprietary advantage. Besides, because of their dominance on the desktop, MSFT can gain the low-end of the market (which has always been their market), crashing or not.
Meanwhile, I do believe that SUNW does have a tremendous opportunity to gain on the high-end, particularly in large Corporate accounts.
I suspect in the high end, what you will get is SUNW machines with SUNW OSes, running MSFT applications software!!! |
