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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (17089)2/5/1998 8:39:00 AM
From: Justin Banks  Read Replies (3) of 24154
 
Alan -

isn't is also good to force SUNW, AAPL, IBM, DEC etc to sell their OSes to independent computer makers in the first place?

Well, you can buy Solaris without a Sun, run mkLinux on an AAPL (although I don't think you can buy a box without an OS), and run a variety of OS's on DEC boxes - they will sell you one without an OS at all, and they'll sell your Digital Unix (formerly OSF/1) sans computer. As for IBM, that would depend on what machines you're talking about, although comparing the SP2 (or even AS/400) sales paradigm to PPro is quite silly, don't you agree?

But, you can't buy a CPQ, DELL, or Gateway machine without the OS pre-loaded. That's the problem.
-justinb
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