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

To: Bob Duncan who wrote (16677)	2/22/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 74651

Reality Check: Win-DOZE 2000 Further delays to Windows 2000 make you wonder if Microsoft shouldn't rename its future operating system Win-DOZE 2000. Let's face it, this is the continuing saga of Windows NT 5.0. Only after Windows NT 5.0 got a bad reputation for repeated delays did Microsoft feel compelled to rename the slowly evolving OS. At this point, Windows sometime around 2000 might be more accurate, even if it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. In the meantime, customers with an eye on the enterprise will have to make do with Windows NT 4.0. The shortcomings of that version for mission-critical applications, especially in the areas of scalability and reliability, are significant and well documented. In fact, in a recent analyst report, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 finished dead last in an overall comparison to the leading versions of UNIX. Sun's SolarisTM 7, on the other hand, was ranked number one in terms of reliability, availability, serviceability and scalability. Furthermore, Sun's Solaris 7 operating environment ranked either first or second in four of the six categories under review, including System Management and Distributed Enterprise Services. Trusted for its superior scalability and high reliability, the Solaris platform is still the operating system of choice for mission-critical applications. While Microsoft would have you believe that momentum for NT 4.0 is still on the rise, the truth is that NT's growth is slowing, while UNIX server usage over the past two years is up 18.6 percent. Other preliminary analyst reports show Sun's Solaris grew 51% in 1997-1998. It's perfectly understandable why Microsoft is taking so long to release an enterprise-ready operating system. It takes years of development and testing to produce a mature operating environment like Solaris. Microsoft is playing catch-up in this arena, while Sun continues to enhance an established and trusted enterprise operating system. It will be interesting to see how much more ground Solaris will have gained by the time Win-DOZE 2000 gets out of the gate. sun.com Unix Growth Still Outpaces Win NT (10/29/98, 8:40 a.m. ET) By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb The most recent Dataquest survey of Unix and Windows NT Server market share shows Unix is not only keeping its lead, but also extending it. techweb.com