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To: Stormweaver who wrote (17652)	7/12/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) of 64865

You said: "Okay, how about if Sun shops buy n-way intel box to run Solaris x86? A lot of Sun shops could be thinking of that scenario for future purchases I'm sure. It gives them the flexibility of running NT/Linux/QNX/SCO... or others in the future." ... and you've said similar things in the past, so presumably you mean it. I just don't see it that way, James. Serious shops don't OS-jump on existing hardware; they buy hardware and software that go together and accomplish a need, and then they expect them to work together until they're obsolete. Why would somebody base a hardware decision on an ability to switch from Solaris to other variants of Unix sometime in the future? If that's what they intend to do, why not start out with, e.g., SCO? In other words, I think the "flexibility" you seem to value is worthless except in the domain of hobbyists. JMHO.

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