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

To: stak who wrote (11230)	10/9/1998 12:55:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74651

stak, In Enterprise computing, RAS (Reliability, Availability, Servicability) is a requirement for any piece of equipment or O/S before it can be a contender. NT just isn't there, yet. Another problem is lack of scalability. The code is very new & there's a lot of it to go wrong & it's untested. The project is late, indicating that it may have gone out of control. My guess is that MSFT will come out with a scaled-down version next year, placing it in more direct competition with Netware rather than Unix, so they'll be limited to the workgroup market. The current push behind Linux may give them some added competition, especially if lots of personal-productivity applications get ported or are written for it. Another thing to bear in mind is that NT is not particularly cheap to purchase, while Linux is. NT is more well positioned for the desktop, rather than the server market now, and NT 5 will most likely remain in that mold. cheers, cherylw