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To: Byron Xiao who wrote (18036)	7/22/1999 12:47:00 AM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Yes, the discussion needs to be brought back into what's good for Sun and less so on the religious arguments although James serves as a valuable lightning rod (or perhaps village idiot) for the MSFT/Desktop vs. Sun/Network Computing arguments. Clearly companies like HP, NCR, Compaq, Digital, Unisys, Sequent, Data General and even IBM which is showing very poor growth in its hardware business havent benefited from the demise of "proprietary iron" relative to Sun and in spending valuable cycles trying to get Microsoft's, Fat, Buggy and perhaps ultimately irrelevant OS to scale they have lost valuable focus on the Network and the ISP, Service Provider and other emerging areas which use the internet as its primary delivery vehicle. If Sun embraced NT do you think they would be a better company? would their profit margins increase? maybe they would sell some $399 desktop computers (of course accesing a Solaris Server) but i would rather have them focus on building out the infrastructure of the internet and explore emerging technology like Java and Jini rather than fixing Microsoft's bugs and abdicating its "innovation' to Microsoft and Intel.

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