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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (59158)	3/3/2004 1:50:16 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

How many people even realize Sun runs Windows? "First - we're not waiting for 2005 to migrate all of Sun to a non-Microsoft desktop" sun.com JMHO and all that.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (59158)	3/3/2004 2:16:11 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 64865

Mikey has been trying to replace Unix in the Dell IT dept for 10 years. When I was there he was going around shouting "all of Dell on NT" and the IT staff were shaking their heads in disgust. You can't even run a big ERP on NT, its ridiculous, 50 users and the thing grinds to a halt. Dell did migrate to NT for their datamarts which are spun off each night and are used for forecasting. Maybe that new grid computing stuff from Oracle might make migration off of Sun possible... maybe... but then you'd have to make sure the ERP and CRM apps can handle that architecture, which I wouldn't bet on with all the crap coming out of oracle these days. The irony in this is that Dell and Sun have almost the same order management setup at the back end. Cisco too. All the big techs are running Oracle apps on Sun hardware.