On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 09:03:35AM -0700, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> With Java in Windows, Sun has access to 95%+ of the desktop market. If Java
> is removed, Sun is left with a whopping 1% or so (the size of the UNIX
> market).
The Unix market is *much* bigger than that; if you add the Linux market,
it's growing rapidly. (Linux is the biggest underground success since we
all trashed our VMS tapes to install BSD Unix back in the early 80's.)
And if you count in terms of numbers of users, not systems, Unix is far
ahead, since a single Unix box can easily support dozens or hundreds of
users, while Windows is still, at its core, a single-user system.
Sun does not need Microsoft to be successful. They actually have
real products and innovative technology to offer, not vaporware
and badly-recycled ideas. *Not* that I'm enthralled with everything
they do at Sun -- I'm not -- but at least they have something other
than hype and FUD to sell.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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