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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (66506)	3/30/2002 1:32:02 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

Unisys, Microsoft to launch anti-Unix ads By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com news.com.com The 18-month project will include advertisements, technical sales efforts and other marketing work plugging Unisys' high-end server and Microsoft's top-end version of Windows--two products that so far have made only their first steps into the data centers where high-end servers often reside. The campaign, called "We have the way out," describes Unix as an expensive trap. "No wonder Unix makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible system. It requires you to pay for expensive experts. It makes you struggle daily with a server environment that's more complex than ever," one ad reads. The same ad depicts a scene in which a computer user has painted himself into a corner with purple paint. Sun's servers are manufactured in a shade of purple similar to that in the ad. Sun responded to the campaign in a statement. "Sun still does not see Microsoft as a real threat in the datacenter market where reliability, availability, serviceability and security are key," the company said. "As for Unix being 'inflexible,' 'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better suited to the closed and proprietary world of Windows." If UNIX is so BAD ... why does it appear to scare the BEJESUS out of MSFT? Tens of millions of dollars to bad mouth another OS that isn't any good? I don't see the logic in this campaign. It makes MSFT look silly. Next thing you know they'll have a fat, bald guy prancing around a stage like a frat boy at a free kegger. LINUX ... just a toy operating system - don't worry about it.