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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34460)8/16/2000 9:13:06 PM
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Those bids are very often bought for bragging-rights. The customer wants something that doesn't exist and it's a battle between the bidders' engineering and sales departments: do we lie about what we can deliver and get the win (the MSFT approach), or do we tell the truth and lose out to our lying competition. I had read earlier articles about this. Sun was bidding small changes to speed up interconnects between systems they already had. Whether Compaq bid blue-sky stuff or not I don't know.

--QS
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