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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (8477)	6/16/1998 7:46:00 PM
From: mozek	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Cheryl, Are you referring to the Sun press release from over 6 months ago that compares the 450 to CPQ's least cost efficient model of that time? I do want to see contrarian views. I'd just like to avoid press releases touted as "hard" news. I could fill the SUNW thread with MSFT press releases, but it makes no sense. Considering the audience, I'd be wasting space on SI's servers, just as you are when you post SUNW press releases here. Instead, I look for 3rd party news to post. I see that you posted a little of that today, and I thank you. Based on my first hand experience dealing with Sun and reading Sun propaganda while absolutely knowing the facts, I do not trust Sun PR at all. Sun repeatedly spiked their high school level Java compilers in order to cheat benchmarks while Symantec and Microsoft were honestly competing with very good code generators. Notice that I said Symantec had a good code generator. Do I think it's better than Microsoft's. Honestly no, but at least they have some real technology. Sun had zero interesting technology and chose to cheat instead. Sun was even fooled by the Hotspot group into thinking that they were buying some groundbreaking stuff. Why? Because they didn't know better. The PR that came out of that purchase made it sound like Java would run faster than hand tuned assembly language while it eliminated waste from your kitchen. Almost two years later, Sun has nothing interesting to show for their purchase. Sure, a few irrelevant benchmarks will look better when running in a particular configuration. Almost anyone can show this with any product. Why don't you cite real news? Please understand that there is definitely a difference between "hard" news and PR. Thanks, Mike

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