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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (45577)	5/28/2000 4:02:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

charles - re: If you really think Sun gear is that overpriced You are putting words in my mouth - I never said it was overpriced. As you probably know, I am typing this on an "overpriced" Ultra workstation. I am in that group who finds the increased reliability of the platform worth the stuff that doesn't run - I have a Win98 machine to manage my digital camera, scanner, and photo printer, and the kids run games on it. None of that stuff runs under Solaris X86 or any solaris or Linux or any other OS which will run on the X86 platform. What I did say was that SUNW, IBM in their RISC and traditional lines, HP's RISC offerings, and CPQ's RISC offerings are a lot more expensive for the same performance. My wife drives a Lexus 470 - she could have had a big SUV for about half the price with roughly the same capability. She's not an idiot, the other stuff that comes with the package made it worth the extra investment. But it is undeniable that the proprietary vendors are about 3X the cost of WinTel platforms for the same performance. It's just a fact, it doesn't mean there is something wrong with SUNW. It does point up the fact that it is a lot more expensive to support the whole of the hardware and software stack. Customers who would like to make the choice of cheaper platforms and either don't understand the benefits of the RISC platforms or just don't care should not have to pay for them if an alternative exists, and the Government should not disrupt the model that has produced those platforms just because they are mad at MSFT.