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To: paul who wrote (5595)	1/19/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: Eli Lauris	Read Replies (2) of 14451

Paul, Where do you get the idea that SGI is abandoning IRIX ? What it did was to expand its product lineup by offering NT products in the workstation market. It still continues to have great IRIX products in the server and HPC markets. The two are not mutually exclusive. NT is not scalable or robust enough for servers at this time, but it's extremely popular on workstations. The NT workstation market is growing at 20-30% a year, while UNIX workstation market is declinining. So SGI customers can get the best of both worlds -- robustness and scalability of UNIX on servers and commodity hardware and abundance of applications of NT on workstations. IBM and HP also have this dual-OS strategy. Only Sun has seen fit to limit its customers to just UNIX. Sun is doing very well now (perhaps partly because NT 5 aka Windows 2000 is late) but I think longer term they'll start feeling the effects of not having an NT offering.

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