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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: cfimx who wrote (26100)1/11/2000 5:21:00 PM
From: paul  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
apologies for making this the Unisys thread..

"...remember, uis is not a COMPETITOR to suncom. <g> did u hear, suncom had a chance to win this account, but they DIDN"T WANT IT BECAUSE IT WAS AN
INUSRANCE COMPANY? Imagine."

firstly - you have no idea what went on in this account and yes Sun may be too cutting edge for these guys - who knows - im sure if Unisys could have taken a potshot at sun they would.

secondly - Unisys is a competitor - at one point they were a much more formidable competitior with their U6000 line, However they made a bet 3 or 4 years ago that if they partnered with Microsoft early they could perhaps ride the supposed NT wave ahead of Compaq, Dell, HP, etc and get a leg up on their RISC competitors who they knew they could not keep up with like Sun, HP and IBM. Well they kept their side of the bargain and Microsoft did not keep theirs having delivered none of the requirements for scalability and reliability most unisys customers expect who were running their convergent boxes or A series or U6000's - and Intel fell flat as well with a badly botched job on IA-64 - these weird configs Unisys rolls out every now and then are basically an attempt to convince their installed base that at some point point they will get there - in other words its about catching up to where Sun was years ago and not where Sun will be years from now.
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