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

To: david_si who wrote (45861)	6/2/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

As good of a TCP/IP stack Windows may have, the internet is in fact, a big collection of (open standard) Unix services. Windows is a bit of a square peg in a round hole as soon as you take it off of the desktop. --- What's important is robustness and scalability. Windows doesn't have either of those things. What Windows has is ease of use, but that falls apart when it can't be administered remotely as Unix can. --- The 'scalabilty' thing is a big deal. Beyond that, the Unix programming model is made for 'internet time' programming. Charles' statement was absolutely correct. It's the reason you don't see M$ making much progress server marketshare against the free Unices, never mind the big boy Unix (Solaris). -JCJ