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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (48252)	7/28/2000 8:44:27 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles - I don't argue that NT was sold more as a desktop OS than as a server OS - I said that explicitly. But it was not "designed" as a desktop OS, it was not "designed" by the MSFT DOS team - it was built by the team MSFT hired away from DEC, the guys who built VMS. On your second point, the CPQ cost pre TPM-C for the 8 node 700MHz benchmark was $19.75, for the UE6500 cluster it was $97.10... that gives a ratio of 4.916 which is not 5, as you say - but close enough for government work, I would think. And true, the Fujitsu number is up there too - I hope you don't plan on claiming that Fujitsu sets some standard to which SUNW aspires. My sense of where MSFT is going is toward what they think the next generation platform will be, and that ain't big servers in datacenters. I suspect you will see only modest effort to "move up the food chain" and instead all the wood put into hitting that next generation architecture. Something SUNW needs to do as well, before the current gold mine of big system sales is played out.