Conference 7.286::digital

3484.0. "Solaris *vs* NT..." by CGOOA::BARNABE (Guy Barnabe - Digital Canada) Thu Nov 03 1994 02:45

    Well well well... is SUN getting scared???
    
    Personnally I think that NT V3.5 (Daytonna) will sell 1.8 mill in the 
    first year alone...  Note that SUN references USERS... not desktops...
    
    Boy they sure seem to have a lot of apps.... that seems hard to beleive
    that they all run on Salaris... meybe they forgost most of them are for
    SUNos... ;^)
    
-- enjoy,
   Guy


 SunSoft - Advertisement
        {The Wall Street Journal, 19-Oct-94, p. B5}
   "The promise of Windows NT has finally been delivered.
    It just comes in a slightly different package.

   We'd like to tell you about a 32-bit software environment that delivers
 performance, not promises.  It's called Solaris.  With over 1.8 million users,
 Solaris is the number one software environment for global enterprise
 networks.*  It's also the highest volume database engine running Oracle,
 Sybase and Informix, the most widely used multiprocessing software environment
 and even the dominant gateway for the information superhighway.  Solaris runs
 over 9300 32-bit solutions**, as well as Macintosh, DOS and Windows
 applications like Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite,  It's not picky when
 it comes to hardware, either.  It's the only 32-bit software environment that
 runs on x86 PCs, SPARC systems, and soon, even PowerPC.  And it's scalable
 from 486 laptops to Cray superservers.  Solaris is enterprise ready, too.
 Unlike PC desktop based environments, it offers the most popular system and
 network management tools in the industry, so you can finally get your
 enterprise under control.  From PCs to mainframes, nothing moves, monitors and
 manages information better.  All of this capability means that with Solaris,
 you don;t have to compromise your existing hardware and software investments.
 And Solaris is, of course, backed by the most experienced client/server
 support organization in the world.  Now, you're probably wondering why you
 should wait for the promise of NT when you can call 1-800-SUN-SOFT and get
 Solaris now.  Exactly.

                                                SunSoft

 Use Mosaic to reach us on the Internet at http:/www.sun.com.
 * Among UNIX operating environments
 ** SPARC applications"


                    DIGITAL INTERNAL USE ONLY Document

I accessed a world-wide web page today that was housed on a Solaris machine.
Does that make me a Solaris user?  Imagine the number of MIPS/Ultrix users
we have in the world if we use gatekeeper logs as our source of info.

j.