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Sun attempts to dethrone Microsoft with low-cost PC | |
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| Time: 09:36 EST/14:36 GMT | News Source: Seattle PI | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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In its latest broadside at Microsoft's dominance on the desktops of corporate America, Sun Microsystems is announcing plans today to sell a line of low-cost desktop computers. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is trying to take advantage of widespread frustration with new Microsoft licensing plans, which raised the cost of upgrading desktop software by up to 45 percent. It's also trying to boost sales of its pricier network-server computers by selling packages that include both servers and the new desktop machines, which are expected to go on sale in the first quarter of 2003. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 9/18/2002 10:24:55 AM |
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"annual service fee"
Interesting... Sun is going for subscription software. Oh yeah, they've been doing this for years already. Again another one of those things that is Evil when Microsoft suggests it, but ok when Sun does. |
| #2 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 9/18/2002 11:17:02 AM |
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If they were selling SPARC stations at a low cost instead of Intel, that might catch more attention....
I really wonder what their desktop management plan is. If we need to change a setting in Word for the whole organization, we can do it on-the-fly from the server. If we need to patch the installation, we can do that a number of different ways, but all from a central location. There's no need to touch every desktop, so big-time $$$ is saved in desktop support. I wonder what kind of tools/functionality StarOffice has for management. |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 9/18/2002 12:58:58 PM |
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bluvg - You can telnet into all the computers? :)
Financialwiz - You know, maybe you are right and Sun is evil. :) Seriously, annual subscriptions are already common... The main complaint people had with Microsoft's program was cost. If it had been 25% of the purchase price/year instead of 33-40%... they would have signed up. That was Microsoft's mistake. |
| #4 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 9/18/2002 3:03:39 PM |
| blue... it was 27% annually for my company... not 33-40%. Not sure where you are getting those numbers. |
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