On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:53:59PM -0400, Steve Fulton wrote:
> > Wrong sorry. Actually the reason why most companies choose to have
> > Solaris, Is that Wall Street (If your in the US and a technology company
> > wanting to go public) will look at the OS that your company uses and it
> does
> > have some effect on what your IPO is going to be.
>
> I'd disagree with that somewhat. One of the major reasons for Sun
> Microsystem's success in the 1990's was because they would sell their high
> end machines to sketchy start up dot coms while others like Compaq, IBM, HP
> etc would not. It was a lot easier to arrange a payment plan with Sun for
> their servers than say IBM. And remember, the free *nix's like BSD and
> Linux were no where near production grade in the early 90's.
I swear to god, I wish people on this list would stop talking out of their
asses. The reason big businesses run Solaris is the same reason they run NT
-- they like having a big company "supporting" their software. This is an
area where the MS/Sun FUD against Open Source has been effective.
--Adam
