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To: Khris Vogel who wrote (4449)10/21/1996 3:24:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt   of 186894
 
Khris -
You wrote: "I personally think that McNealy's gamble to not support Windows NT is one that is going to lose. Egos cause major errors in judgment. The sheer hatred McNealy and Ellison have exhibited towards MSFT in interviews is just amazing (that of Ellison especially).
These guys would be nowhere today if not for Microsoft (and Intel), and they risk being exactly there if don't keep their heads and egos in check."

How so? Unless I'm mistaken, Sun was building workstations and Oracle was selling database software before the first IBM PC was sold, and neither has ever been particularly reliant on the PC platform. So they may very likely have done as well or better without Microsoft or Intel.
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