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To: lanac who wrote (53932)	4/20/1998 5:13:00 AM
From: Shibumi	Read Replies (1) of 186894

>>Re: Sun backing out from Merced (source: Barron's, Dvorack)<< Perhaps it might help to put in perspective Sun's backing of Merced in the first place. Sun never endorsed Merced as the core processor platform for the company; instead, Sun had a deal by which they could gain early access to Merced information -- primarily so their SunSoft operating system group could support the microprocessor. For years now, SunSoft has supported two core microprocessor families: SPARC and Intel. So the Sun Merced agreement announced a while back was really nothing unusual. Despite all of the promotional hype when the Sun/Merced stuff was announced -- it never signaled a change in Sun's intent concerning the SPARC platform. In terms of Sun backing out of this deal -- I doubt it. Sun lured NCR over to Solaris by reportedly saying that SunSoft was going to do a better and faster job of supporting Intel microprocessors with Solaris. Merced could be a horrible piece of crap -- and that wouldn't change Sun's original intentions.

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