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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (8872)	7/2/1998 1:47:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>>It takes 20 years for an operating system to reach maturity and 30 for it to reach senility. << What about MVS? Isn't that from the '60s or something? Isn't IBM constantly improving it yet? FWIW Andy

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (8872)	7/2/1998 2:54:00 AM
From: space cadet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Bill, exactly correct. I wonder how many people who mutter about sunw's operating system have ever actually seen a unix computer. Last year I had the priviledge of using one and it lived up to its billing as the world's least intuitive interface (according to one of those idiot's books). Only hardcore computer geeks without a social life could possibly find it attractive. It would never ever catch on in the business world even if there was NO competition. Sunw could have developed a human friendly shell for unix. In fact, they should have bought apple a while back when apple was on sale and used the very friendly apple interface. Instead they have done nothing. I see sunw as a company that has lost its way and now it is a fairly insignificant part of the technical world IMO. They need to jettison their head boss and refocus. Their only product that is at the frontlines these days is Java. They may remain a successful niche manufacturer for engineering workstations but they have blown their ability to enter new markets. And unix is a sad sad joke. Sure it's stable, but is it penetrable? I hope it dies before the year 2000. We have enough garbage without that ghastly operating system. Just like the y2k bug, I'm sure the people who write unix never imagined that in the late 1990's that monstrosity would still survive.