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To: RTev who wrote (19969)	4/7/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) of 74651

If you include Merced, it's going to be huge. SUNW has a joint venture going with 1 or 2 other hardware vendors to port Solaris to Merced. Solaris7 is already 64-bit ready & SUNW was the first to announce the Merced deal with Intel. Be that as it may, bear in mind that Merced is not going to be the RISC-killer Intel/HWP thought. Chip co-developer HWP admitted as much late last year when they announced the development of another chip (McKinley) that surely will be a RISC-killer. However, it isn't slated for the market for another 3-5 years. No wonder Lew Platt lost his job. If you exclude Merced, Solaris on PC's has never been a very robust market niche, and with the introduction of Linux, won't do any better. I would say that this is due to the lack of personal productivity apps that are typically used on the PC. cherylw

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