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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (33590)	7/16/2000 12:01:30 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Merry - great article and Great PR but full of revisionist history. For example - Almost from its founding in 1982, Sun has pursued a vision in which computing power resides on huge servers, whisking data and other services to PCs, handheld gadgets, and other devices. Sun did not even offer servers until the early 90s. The early products were designed to go after the workstation CAD-CAM market them owned by Apollo and a few others. Sun created a stunning value proposition by offering products with better performance at less than half the cost - (sound familiar? Kind of like the server proposition today). It took a while for them to make progress since the big customers were locked in by applications architecture, but Sun developed a grass-roots support in the Unix community which quickly brought them to parity and beyond. But the server-centric ideas came 10 years later and were not a part of early thinking. The success of this kind of "reinvention" of what Sun has said and when is one of the reasons I have confidence in the stock - great marketing. Of couse Sun has to actually be the company they are re-inventing themselves to have always been.

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