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To: The Phoenix who wrote (65460)	9/14/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: divvie	Respond to of 176387

Sales of the NT version of SAP are outgrowing those on any Unix system. Much to my disappointment NT is rapidly becoming the OS of choice due, in no small part, to the short-sightedness of people who see a low cost solution without realizing the TCO issues. Different versions of Unix will survive in the high end for a while, but NT will eat away gradually from the bottom up. Solaris has the most market share I believe and I really hoped that this would be the one to fight NT, especially as SUNW are going to compile it for Merced. If you could get a migration path from NT to NT/DEC Unix through to DEC Unix wouldn't a lot of companies flock to that? What I'm saying is that the power of NT, in terms of mindshare, is so strong that it could lead companies to choose DEC Unix along with NT. You make a good point about reliability and I have touched on this on the bear thread. This MSFT/CPQ development will not solve that, so Unix has a lot more years left. Maybe I'm overreacting to this, but I'm still going to follow this closely without dismissing it out of hand (you did not dismiss it out of hand I know).