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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (20894)	10/8/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Uh... no. First of all Reginald, M$ not the fastest growing commercial developer. iPlanet/Netscape is. Look at the Netcraft 'market share' chart, and then look at the raw data for the last three months. Secondly, what the hell difference does it make? M$ has ~20% and the rest of the world has the other 80%, and guess what - the whole rest of the world (internet - hello?) operates with this crazy new thing called 'open standards', on mostly Sun hardware, and the paradigm is going FROM software TO hardware as evidenced by your own work. The embrace (of M$) has nothing left to extend. I am absolutely dumbfounded that you can be a developer (in Java no less) of web 'service' software and then seem to just not 'get it' like you do. Yikes. It's as if you've had some silver tongued stroll with Steve Ballmer through the M$ campus while overly medicated. I'm sorry that I stooped to flaming your spelling in the course of making a point. Let me add something more constructive. Here are two worthwhile editorial points which cause me to ask the same question; why is Sun so obviously not being mentioned. The first article (Wired) actually asks the question. Wired: Microsoft Lambastes Linux* So why did Microsoft target Linux and not Solaris, the OS from established competitor Sun Microsystems? wired.com This second piece (Tim O'Reilly) makes some really right-on points which I'm sure many of which you'll agree. You have to perhaps filter through the publishing $ politics (that is O'Reilly has no cache in Solaris or Java publication). But at the end (and it's worth reading that far), the obvious question is, Why did this fellow so obviously not include the mention of 'Sun' or any of it's brands when it was SUCH an appropriate context? Why did O'Reilly target M$ and not Sun? If the old world was all about 'software' and the new world is all about (web) 'hardware', then where does M$ even fit in? Where the Web Leads Us* by Tim O'Reilly <flashing_flashing>worthwhile</flashing_flashing> xml.com -JCJ