| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : FEBRUARY 22, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| READERS REPORT
Sun vs. Microsoft: It's Not about Size I was amused by the suggestion in ''Sun Power'' (Cover Story, Jan. 18) that Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system is ''under a bruising assault'' because Microsoft NT is shipping 1.6 million copies, compared with Solaris' 167,000 in 1998, according to the estimates of International Data Corp. Of course, Solaris was outshipped 10 to 1: It takes 10 times as many servers running NT to equal the computing power, reliability, stability, and availability of a single Sun SPARC running Solaris. NT has its place: in environments that are not mission-critical. But managing crucial business data and services on NT servers is not an option. Paul Theodoropoulos Senior UNIX Systems Administrator Advanced TelCom Group Inc. Santa Rosa, Calif. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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