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To: Jon Tara who wrote (10623)	7/23/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (2) of 64865

Hi Jon - You suggestion for SUNW to release a free ware version of the Solaris/X86 is an excellent idea. Many of the university trained students have experience with UNIX and Solaris but when they hit the street they migrate to Windows NT. One of the reasons is the availability of many shareware programs and utilities available for NT for free download on the net. If SUNW made their Solaris software available more to the main stream, perhaps there would be more shareware type utilities available on the internet. I recently upgraded one of my systems to Windows NT 4.0 so I could prototype applications utilizing new Windows NT utilities and software server applications. Netscape offers demo versions of their servers for Solaris, NT and several other platforms but I choose NT as more of these utilities work on NT. If SUNW can build a loyal group of independent developers who use X-86 Solaris, perhaps many of the new internet software companies would release their applications that work on this platform. These developers may then upgrade to the "pure" SOLARIS Darwin machines before Intel releases their Merced products. Sunw has very little to loose here and quit a bit to gain. This is especially important now as new internet software companies must choose which platforms to support with their limited resources. A move by SUNW to make Solaris, SUNW pure JAVA Virtural machine, Jini and other development tools and utilities would lay the foundation for excellent future growth for SUNW in both hardware and software sales. EKS P.S. I am still looking for a version of Solaris X-86 to use so I can prototype new server software, server applications, e-commerce software, etc. If you know where I can download send me an e-mail.

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