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To: Marvin Mansky who wrote (20591)	10/2/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) of 64865

My current thinking on the subject (of course, I can't know Sun's thought processes in making these decisions any more than can you): ANYTHING Sun can do to make Solaris ubiquitous helps SUNW. What hardware platforms does Solaris run on? Which of those two performs/scales better? So if Solaris is the OS of choice, which of the two platforms will eventually replace the other? Will the Alpha, PowerPC, PA-RISC or MIPS even be in the running? I think Sun has decided they can win in hardware. Period. The way to do it is to make the OS choice one that narrows the hardware field to themselves and one (technically) relatively weak competitor. At the same time, they'll pick up some software revenue. In a way, twister, Dale, and James may be right -- it's (mostly) just a way to sell Sun "iron." I doubt the Linux people can legally derive code from the Solaris source without paying royalties (which I assume they'll refuse to do). But that's not a legal opinion. JMHO, of course (as always).

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