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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: trouthead who wrote (16388)	5/13/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I dont want to get dragged down into the discussion of using a Sun Workstation at Home. Sun Workstations and PC's have always addressed different markets - Sun has always addressed the technical markets and always will - PC's are for home and general office use - it makes more sense today to buy a $500 PC (and no more) for web access and personal applications (see, i said it) - tomorrow it will be a host of net access devices like NC's, settop boxes, palm pilots, etc. Think of it, how much software do you go out and buy? i did my taxes this year on the quicken web site - didnt have to go to compusa to buy anything - i used to have a separate software application to load to use electronic banking - now its done on the web - and i can access it from my Sun Workstation, PC, Laptop wherever I am with Netscape since everything is stored on a centrally managed server. Sun's efforts on the back end in providing those servers, on the front end with Java, NC's and in the middle with its software (Netdynamics, Netscape) makes a lot more sense than trying to fight yesterdays battle of making an ever cheaper PC.

To: trouthead who wrote (16388)	5/13/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 64865

FWIW, Solaris vs. NT uptime... I agree that Win95/98 = at least one reboot a day. But NT is not the same animal. I run NT 4.0 server and Solaris 7 X-86 side-by-side at home. (On two separate machine.) I reboot the NT server when I install software. (bummer that that's still necessary...) Otherwise, maybe once a month something goes wrong and it has to be re-booted due to some failure. (Not surprising, given the amount of third-party kernel-mode software installed on the typical NT workstation or server.) I don't think I've ever had to reboot Solaris due to a software failure. So, Solaris gets the nod, but NT really isn't bad for a workstation. For a server, I'd be happier if you didn't have to reboot upon installing the most trivial application. BTW, I echo the sentiment a couple of others have expressed here that Sun still needs to really get behind Solaris X86. Heck, I'd be happy if they'd just write a mouse driver that doesn't have the cursor lagging the mouse by 1/2 second. I find the console absolutely unusable. I've had to install an X-server (Frontier SuperX) on NT to be able to get any work done on Solaris X86. (I'm sure that the mouse driver works fine on the Sparc. It does, doesn't it? Anyone?)