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

To: Tom Kearney who wrote (5434)	3/10/1998 2:02:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Judging by the courses, books for NT, it is not much easier to train for NT than Unix. Also, Unix is still taught at the core for most comp sci degrees beyond BS, although this may be changing (though things like Linux have taken over where BSD left off). Nevertheless, as far as training goes, I think MSFTs aggressive efforts to provide training and support facilities has done much to encourage adoption of the platform. However, Unix committed shops have in some cases chosen not to let NT in just because of the costs associated with trying to convert support resources. In most cases, all our Unix staff are more likely to quit than be retrained, and you will have to go out and hire those unavailable NT experts! We shall see. I still feel NT will have to fight hard to actually replace Unix in the short term, and that most of the NT growth is in places that are choosing NT instead of going to Unix when their computing needs expand to that level. JMO