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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (57183)	4/7/2001 11:55:41 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

How can Microsoft software be "much, much cheaper" when Solaris licenses are free? Right. And along with free Solaris and free Linux, another big competitor for Microsoft in the server market will be Mac OS X Server 2.0, which has been getting no press yet but will make a huge splash when people suddenly realize that it offers UNIX server apps (apache, sendmail, etc.) with easy-to-use Mac OS system administration tools. I don't know how much Mac OS X Server 2.0 will cost, but I'd be surprised if it's as much as Windows server software. Dave

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (57183)	4/9/2001 11:15:20 AM
From: Valley Girl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Solaris is only "free" on the X86 platform, and then only as long as practically nobody's using it. Sun gets a premium price for sparc-based boxes so the "cost" of Solaris is buried in the price of the box - dollar for dollar you get more in an Intel box. Oh, and the Solaris X86 is not to be compared to Linux because it comes only with the bare-bones OS, you must pay and pay big to get essential stuff like a C compiler, while Linux comes bundled with the sun, the moon, and the stars. (Don't know about OS X.) Truth is tho a few dollars here or there for the box and/or OS don't matter much, compared with manageability features that save loads on people down the track. Sun has the edge here (over Linux) not just because of superiour software but also because the huge installed base assures that there is a larger pool of people with the right skill sets (same things may be true of NT/W2K in the end). Just my opinion, mind.