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To: johnd who wrote (54865)	1/4/2001 5:04:55 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Check out the Wall Street Journal today. Microsoft is running a full page 5 9's (99.999% uptime) advertisement for Win2k Server. Also an article on Microsoft's "Assault on the Server Market" Brash Sales Boss Leads Microsoft In Its Assault on the Server Market By REBECCA BUCKMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Even in an industry where executives have elevated trash talking to an art form, Microsoft Corp.'s new head of world-wide sales and marketing, Orlando Ayala, stands out. Consider his comment that Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Scott McNealy "can't handle the truth" about the quality of Sun's computer servers. Or his remark that Mr. McNealy's libertarian political views show he must be "smoking pot." (Through a spokeswoman, Mr. McNealy declined to respond.) Clearly, the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft isn't making the company less aggressive as it barrels into new markets. The old-school Mr. Ayala -- whose brashness and blunt talk is reminiscent of the style of his boss, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer -- is launching a no-holds-barred campaign against Sun and Oracle Corp. in the lucrative business of selling high-end servers to big companies. Mr. Ayala promises to "liberate" customers from the "tyranny" of what he calls overpriced machines from his competitors. "We're going to stop taking this goddamn high road," he declared in a recent interview. "We're going to go and compete head on." Continued... interactive.wsj.com (The bold emphasis are mine)

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