Re: [OT] New Desktop OS?
- Posted by eugtk at yahoo.com
Sep 17, 2003
--- "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > Who's their market?
> >
> > Their market is medium to large businesses.
> > Businesses who want to be able to predict and
> control
> > their costs.
>
> Then I ask again... what's the pitch?
>
> "Dump your entire computer system and buy ours.
> Sure, you'll lose all your
> legacy apps (or have to pay to upgrade them), and
> any data files you had in
> a M$ proprietary format will have to be discarded or
> redone, but, hey! At
> least we're cheaper!"
Most businesses (unless they just copy the software)
spend far more on Windows, word processing and similar
programs than they do on custom-written apps.
And with Microsoft planning to force new purchases
on everyone in a couple of years, they can probably
see how it will be cheaper to pay Sun (or any good
Java programmer) to re-write those legacy apps.
I'll bet if you bought, say, 100 licenses from Sun,
they'd convert the data for you.
Plus there are at least a few who don't exactly agree
with Microsoft's plan to "own" their data.
Irv
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