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To: paul who wrote (519)	12/29/1997 9:05:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) of 1600

NT is 4 times less than a sun workstation with equal performance? Depends what you are talking about. NT is an OS and a Sun workstation is hardware and an OS. Can you equal the performance of a Sun workstation with an NT box, for less money? Absolutely. Are there high-end Sun workstations which NT boxes can't touch? There are, for now. Universities typically get very favorable pricing and they pay for higher performance. Universities buy Sun workstations because most faculty are UNIX freaks and are terrified by anything else. The know UNIX, have worked with UNIX since "the beginning", so why would they buy anything else? It has very little to do with price/performance. Sun doesnt need workstations to grow and it is releaseing a $5,000 line of technical workstations in January to keep parity with Wintel. who knows - maybe the DOJ will sue Sun and give them additional publicity. Why would they do this? Given the choice between a $5k Wintel machine and a $5k Sun machine, why would anyone buy the Sun box? This sounds like a loss leader for Sun.

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