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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Sonki who wrote (11880)11/23/1998 1:50:00 PM
From: Mephisto   of 64865
 
How would SUNW benefit from Netscape?

Netscape Browser can be used with UNIX. MSFT's Browser cannot.

Here is an excerpt from a story that I found last week & posted elsewhere. The story mentioned companies that were unhappy with MSFT's Browser. Boeing is one company.

Microsoft Web Browser Integration Resented By Some

By David Lawsky

Here is an excerpt:

" Aerospace giant Boeing Co. and two major computer makers were troubled that Microsoft Corp. decided to fold its Internet browser into its Windows operating system, the software giant's antitrust trial heard .

Boeing made a conscious choice to use the first version of Windows 95, which had no Web browser.

Scott Vesey of Boeing said in a videotaped deposition that the company decided to use Netscape's Navigator because it worked on many operating systems -- such as Unix, which runs high-end scientific work stations -- instead of just Windows.

Internal Boeing documents exhibited in court showed that the company was under increasing pressure to switch away from the aging first version of Windows 95 because it cannot handle the latest hardware
improvements.

Vesey recommended moving to Windows 98 but that would force Boeing to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

''We do not have a choice,'' he said in a Boeing report introduced into evidence. ''The integration between Internet Explorer and the desktop operating system cannot be fully disabled.''

Hope this information helps.
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