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To: Stormweaver who wrote (17849)	7/14/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	Read Replies (2) of 64865

> Hey Nolan your going against the grain. Doesn't Java give you > the flexibility of choosing the OS + hardware vendor combination > that provides the best performance for your application ? Looking > at server side applications they are much more portable (even if > they aren't Java based) and hence can migrate between OS's much > more readily. Yep! So now I don't care whether I'm buying proprietary "iron" or not because they can move to something else in 2 years when the technology improves. All I care about is price and performance or as Sun likes to say price/performance and the investment in my software is safe. Thanks for proving my point. > Therefore why not choose an open iron environment (x86) so that > you have the flexibility to migrate or re-use that iron Because as you just helped me to explain, I can switch in a couple of years IF x86 can ever get up to my level of expectations. If I have the software investment protected hardware is NO problem. BTW, how many "hand me down" systems have you wanted to use lately?

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