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To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (8524)	2/15/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Edward Boghosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Thank you for the explanation. Doesn't this mean an attack on the Windows OS although not a direct attack. Ed.

To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (8524)	2/15/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Phil, No-one will risk Rhapsody in an enterprise role until it has shown a few years robust use. Some big enterprise people will in fact set up test systems with Rhapsody and test it to the limit and try to make it fault/crash etc., and they will, and it will get fixed and in a couple of years a few feet will go in the water. By that time NT will be well ahead in enterprises. The Suns, HPs, etc will change or die, as MSFT will force NT forward and will spend billions on perfecting the program. Only IBM or the entirety of Unix all together on a single project will over come NT. It will win as long as Apple, Sun Hp, IBM, etc all run their own disparate Unix versions. It makes some sense for them all to unite under Rhapsody. They will not, big corporations on a proprietary kick are as dubm as they come. Look at Scully, Amelio, Jobs... dumb where unity is concerned... Unix will stay and die fragmented. The real functions of Unix will continue, but their share will head down, down, down, like Apples did. And they all think they are right and I am wrong. They may be richer then me, but they are not smarter. Bill

To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (8524)	2/15/1998 7:35:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 213177

There is only small portion of NT (4%-5%) used in enterprise when compared to Sun's Solaris, HP/UX, and IBM/AIX. This does not match what I heard. People have switched in droves to NT. I know of a company that sells multiplatform software, and they get to see these trends ahead of everybody else. They saw a big decline on Alphas before the market had even noticed the trend. Similarly with NT: eighteen months ago, you could count NT accounts with the fingers of one hand. Since then the proportion of UNIX to NT accounts has moved to somewhere 50-50. One should remember that legacy systems stay up and running and that skews the figures. I'd venture to say that sales of new enterprise systems are 30-50% NT. But since there is such a large installed UNIX base it migth well be that they are only a 5% of enterprise installations, giving a false sense of security to UNIX vendors. IMHO, Unix vendors blew it when they failed to properly integrate a GUI and other user friendly features to the system (their latest CDEsperate effort not withstanding :-). Even the simplest tasks, such as adding a new user, required executing a sequence of arcane commands in precise order. SUN was the first to provide built-in scripts for similar tasks in 1993 or thereabouts with their Solaris system.