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To: Marvin Mansky who wrote (25061)	12/19/1999 4:36:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) of 64865

Will LINUX help SUNW more than hurting it's Solaris sales? I think Sun's official stance is in 2 parts: 1. The "enemy of my enemy is my friend" type of thing. Linux isn't NT/W2K. A rising Unix/Linux tide lifts all Unix boats and swamps M$FT (so goes the theory). Solaris is Linux' big brother. In a world full of Linux users, Solaris looks familiar, can run some of the same binaries (in the Intel case anyway and maybe SPARC too), and is the logical big-server system. Etc. 2. The hugely overwhelming majority of Linux boxes are Intel boxes, Linux seats hurt Microsoft more than they hurt Sun (Since Solaris Intel is basically free and Windows basically isn't). SPARCstations running Linux are relatively few and are certainly noise on Sun's bottom line (and that's the hardware gain, not the software loss). Displacement of Solaris on those boxes is no issue at all. Linux helps to expand an environment where the operating system can be anything, platforms are networked, distributed, and reasonably open, and no monopoly collects software taxes on every seat. That's Sun's vision and Sun wins to the extent that vision is realized. (At least this is the party line). BWDIK --QS

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