How that actually transpires to units sold to consumers we don't have any visibility into
Al Gillen
[The Sun announcement] is one of the most important things we're going to see this year,.. Is it something IBM can't offer? Not really. But it will be perceived as being different enough that customers will look at it and consider it.
sun things offer important
Microsoft is now taking a viable approach,.. It's a more practical way to go about it.
practical
Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.
movement systems
They do 150 million PCs per year it's like a rounding error.
error
It's a small percentage but nevertheless, for 15 percent of its customers to be unhappy with a policy Microsoft is setting is not a good sign.
good small unhappy sign
Plans to use Active Directory are extremely high. The problem is that actually doing that is still sometimes difficult and time consuming.
plans time problem difficult active
Most organizations have Unix servers installed, and they're prepared to manage Unix systems. The question is whether they're prepared to manage large blocks of Unix clients.
organizations question systems
A lot of companies need a reason to stay with NetWare. For the NetWare installed base, NetWare 5.1 is going to be a very attractive product.
reason attractive
Business users typically have concerns about a new Microsoft product, and that concern was proven to be fairly meaningful when that UPnP bug was revealed. They want to wait for those things to happen and get fixed.
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