Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Drag, have you seen MS' recent ideas on how much people should be paying for SQL Server 2000? They have gone the Oracle pricing route, and if I was going to fork over that much, why not just buy Oracle?
Well that's cool. Like with "Access" (mostly only aviable with the highest priced Office versions) MS is going the "quick suicide" route and making all it's best products unobtainable by the average person while putting it in the same pricing leage of software they have no business competing with.
(just kidding just kidding)
Well the situation could of definately changed since I last researched it, but MS traditionally made money from 3 things: 1. Windows, 2. Office, 3. Investing in the stock market and I can understand MS's desire to widen it's profitable software portfolio vs loss-leader-lets-keep-people-buying-Windows-and-Office software portfolio.
Actually, to be honest, I wouldn't like to see MS fail completely, just 30-40% fail. Just enough so that other people can actually be in a position to get enough market share to get on a level playing feild as far as competition in concerned with Windows.
For instance i've screwed around with Access lately and even though the database stuff itself sucks, the Application is great and makes good sense for the people it's targeting (secretaries, solo accountants, small business owners etc. etc.). MS could have a nice survival path thru making nice Applications if they are smart enough not to get locked into a Windows death spiral.
Now if they could do that (MS Access-type front end, I mean) for people running simple MySQL-type databases then you would realy have something usefull. A nice system for handling normal small-medium business data, flexible enough to handle unusual requirements and also offering a nice upgrade path to bigger and better things if the company continues to grow.
But then again, what do I know? (a: Not much.)
As for the software in question, why would you want to run OSX through an emulator? I can understand Mac users wanting a PC emulator, but why the reverse? If there is no compelling reason to buy a Mac, what is the compelling reason to run MacOSX on a PC?
Not very much I can think of, which is why there aren't more products like this.
Mostly I think it would be for software developement people, emulator would allow you to test out ideas and things in a Apple-based PPC enviroment without actually having to have a Apple computer handy all the time. Plus having it very slow may sometimes make debuggging a little bit easier.
Whatever...
But, by golly, the people wanted OS X on x86, and now they can have it!
With PearPC the minimal system requirements for good performance on x86 for OS X is roughly equvalent or slightly more then the requirements for Longhorn, so people now have another thing to look forward to with those 6ghz multi-core desktop PCs with 16gigs of RAM and 250,000RPM disks. (I kid, I kid!)