Re: Anyone know why the Alpha market is so so quiet?

Main, Kerry schrieb:


Yeah, but how long would Toyota and Ford be in business if they gave away cars for free and only sold $1000/year support licenses?

:-)

oh no, not another broken car example.
A car company just sells cars, so they hardly can give them away for free.
An IT company sells hardware, OS (maybe), middleware, apps, services.
So they may give away one of those for free to increase sales of the other parts.


And to address a reply from someone else, if you sell a car very cheap for with the idea of selling lots of future parts, then you are also toast as companies like Toyota are selling quality and that is one of the big reasons why they are doing so well over companies like GM.

Bottom line, software is a business. If you do not make a good profit on it, then you go out of business and your Customers are on their own.

No, IT as whole is a business, OS's are just a part of it.
And in these days of "free"/low cost OS's such as the BSDs, Linux and now Solaris it is becoming a commodity if not an add-on.
I think you have no business in bashing Sun for that.
It's a brilliant move on their part, and as far as I can see,
Sun and their platform are in a much better shape than VMS.


Unfortunately, as most security analysts will tell you, approx 50-60% of all security incidents are internal related.

which means that it isn't the OS which has problems but rather the
company culture.

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