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

To: Stormweaver who wrote (9598)	7/23/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

>Bug fixes to any piece of software sold should be free since they prevent the software from performing as it was intended. OS patches are free from any OS vendor I've dealt with. win98 = win95 OSR3 + more bugs in my opinion What OS vendors have you dealt with? We'll check out your claim. >He'd better since the corporate world is coming to the end of the "NT evaluation period". Reliability and scalability issues will push evaluators back to UNIX We ended most evaluation periods when NT 3.51 was released. We are now in the implementation period, IMHO. Of course, there are some organizations who are evaluating NT and will reject it (for now). And there are some organizations that have already accepted it. NT isn't a good solution for implementation of mission critical enterprise applications for large organizations--yet. But it is a good solution for implementation of useful applications in small, medium, and large organizations or for departmental solutions in any size organization. The fact is, NT's growth heretofore came from new LAN implementations and from the Novell and Banyan installed base. NT has only recently been percieved as a threat to UNIX. (This battle has only begun, for Pete's sake! You seem to think the battle is almost over and NT lost.) The question is will NT overcome its scalability, reliability and security isses well enough to become appropriate for enterprise solutions. It is arguable either way. I think its chances are good and my money is where my mouth is.