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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17119)	2/5/1998 4:24:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Reg - You know I can not buy a SGI OS without Internet capability. The end user may be able to take the ability out, but this is the case with MSFT as well. Teh same with NSCP browser. Sorry, Reg, but this time you're just flat-out wrong (kinda like the derivatives on Cray machines thing). You can call SGI today and tell them you'd like an Origin200 with no networking s/w and no tcp/ip stuff installed, and they'll be happy to oblige. You think we sell machines to secret sites with all the networking stuff installed and turned on? Yeah, but can I tell SGI I want this picture but not that one BEFORE it is shipped, especially if these are options that will degrade the OS. Well, yes. Why? SGI doesn't put stuff that would degrade the OS into applications. MSFT is the only vendor that is expected to offer "degrades" in thier OS. MSFT is the only OS company with a design model silly enough to allow them to put OS components into applications. -justinb

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17119)	2/5/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Reggie, >>MSFT is the only vendor that is expected to offer "degrades" in thier OS. Or is it that Microsoft, through their dumping practices, brought this upon themselves? Ignoring the cause and attempting to justify the effect proves nothing. Two men commit a homicide; one is defending himself against a car-jacker; the other just tried to install NT while on crack and went berzerk at Comdex. In your case you would ignore the background leading to the events and send both equally to the chair. Does SGI restrict its resellers from removing any functionality before selling it to a customer? It sure does not sound like it. I will call SGI up and find out if they will sell me a machine with "installed software" removed. Did you ever specifically request them to do so? It is not a degrade to the OS if functionality not desired is removed. We do it all the time on an RTOS. Its called modular design and when done correctly, it really works. Maybe the Win98 designers have found a 1980 copy of RMX86 and caught on to this for the PC. Cheers, Norm