:CRN: Despite the Linux hype, Windows 2000 and Solaris will be slugging it out in corporate America
CRN: Despite the Linux hype, Windows 2000 and Solaris will be slugging it out in corporate America Nov 9, 1999, 18 :42 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (5346 reads) (Other stories by Paula Rooney)
"And the rise of the two operating systems likely will squash many Unix
variants, much the way Windows crushed IBM Corp.'s OS/2. Compaq...and
Corporate Software & Technology Inc....are considering offering Linux support but no one is expecting it to
ascend to a full-fledged enterprise operating system."
"Microsoft is growing quickly in that space, but a year ago a lot of
people said NT overtaking Unix was a given. I don't think that's the
case anymore," said Erich Jacobs, vice president of strategic planning
at CS&T, one of Microsoft's large account resellers (LARs)."
"At least one other large Microsoft Certified Solution Provider is
watching to see how Sun reacts and responds to the increased
pressure. "As for stepping up our Solaris business, it's still too soon to
tell. We'll know better next summer," said Rand Morimoto, president of
Inacom Information Systems Oakland in Oakland, Calif., which does 55
percent of its business today in NT/Windows, 20 percent in Novell
NDS and 15 percent in Solaris. "As for Solaris for Intel, we're not
serious about that-it's more Linux for Intel these days. The Solaris
folks are still hard-core Sun hardware."
