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To: Steve Wren who wrote (6739)	1/13/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam	Read Replies (1) of 64865

I believe SUN did try to persuade other Unix vendors to accept Solaris as the de facto standard and failed. When BSD was free, why would IBM, HP and Digital have to pay SUN for Unix? As regards to applications, Solaris was intended for the high-margin Engineering workstation market and all applications developed were geared to that market. It's only when Microsoft showed the world that the consumer market also has good margins that IBM and SUN are cursing themselves to have let the opportunity slip by?? Try this link - it has good information upside.com I'm really not bothered so much about SUN missing revenues because SUN is a great innovater and has always proved everybody wrong. Even if they slide 10 or 15%, they'll recover strongly due to their product announcements and Java strategy (remember they have started to make money on Java - viz. TCI). I guess JavaOS is next big cashcow for SUN? Any comments? I'm scared of Microsoft's earnings - if they fall short they'd pull the whole market down. Cheers, Babu

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