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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (62814)	3/29/2005 2:36:38 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (3) of 64865

I believe NCR's mid-90's ties to Sun started out in a state of advanced deterioration and went downhill from there. No significant products or ongoing revenues resulted for either company. NCR was one of several surviving "BUNCH" members (remember that dusty acronym?) trying to unburden themselves of a shop full of pricey employees who were maintaining a proprietary Unix. Since then NCR seems to have taken care of that problem through massive restructuring. But back then they thought Solaris x86 might have a role to play. This was a few years before Sun killed Solaris x86. If NCR came away with an impression of Sun from that encounter, it was probably "Gee, those guys are tough to work with", as was often the case in those days. (Though of course the same was true of NCR.) Probably best to hope this new HP CEO wasn't involved with the former NCR-Sun relationship. Then maybe when he starts to remake HPQ into a web-centered digital-media storage and services company, he might buy some servers...assuming IBM doesn't get in there first and pull off a short-term win. --QS

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