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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (9951)5/27/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: micromike  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Interesting article but I can see a problem for the NC in the office applications area. Unless somebody can develop NC applications that can use MS files and basically look and feel like MS products then they might have a fighting chance. This following article lead me to this conclusion. MS product can't even touch WP but the consumers aren't buying it due to the following reason.

LAW FIRMS DROP COREL FOR MICROSOFT
canoe.com
Almost half the survey respondents switching to Word say they're doing it because their clients use the software, said Steve Alizadeh, president of Lawgical Solutions and a managing partner at Toronto law firm of Lafleur Brown. "The switch seems to be more client-driven than for reasons of the software being better or worse than worse,
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And another interesting article. It presently looks like IBM is grabbing more market share than Sun for the NC.

IBM scores another NC win
news.com
Score another one for IBM and its Network Station. Tomorrow, the company will announce that Carlson Worldwide, a U.K.-based travel company, will replace its networked PCs with 2,000 Network Stations connected to 400 Netfinity 3500 servers. Sources close to IBM estimate the value of the deal at over $4 million.
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JMHO
Mike
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