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To: Michael L. Voorhees who wrote (611)	2/20/1997 2:44:00 PM
From: uu	of 64865

Michael: > MSFT has more than just a marketing problem, they have a basic > brain drain problem that might translate into a longer term problem > within the company. I am not sure about the MSFT developers moving to Sun. I am sure this does happen the same as people from Sun going to MSFT. But I agree with you on the note that MSFT will have a definite longer term problem as Beans model will become more popular then the COM Microsoft has advocated for many years. Microsoft will not go away but it will definilty NOT have the growth it has had in the past. But till this slow down happens its a long way (perhaps another 2 years or so). Beans will take a while to become popular. Many developers are hooked on OLE and the installed base is so huge it will take many years for Beans to even match that. In any case Sun will grow no matter what! One thing I have noticed is that people on this thread tend to compare Sun with Microsoft. But this is the wrong company to compare Sun with! Software is just a very very very small part of Sun's business. The main compettitors of Sun are HP, Dec, and IBM. Microsoft will help Sun (and IBM, DEC and HPs of the world) in their further growth while these other companies (HPs of the world) will be extremly compettitive and those are the ones Sun should very much be careful of! So I dont understand why MSFT is mentioned so much. Sun is mainly competing with HP, DEC and IBM and not necessarily Microsoft! If Windows NT is of concern; Yes it is challenging UNIX. But then Pepsi is also challenging Coke! I used to be a UNIX engineer for over 11 years but for the past 4 years I have been using Windows NT almost 100%. It is a neat platform for development, but it can never ever replace UNIX. It simply does not have the power and/or capabilities of UNIX. Somehow I can not imagine IRS running its software on Windows NT (actually I kind of wished they did!!!). But the reality is for massive critical mission applications nothing can replace UNIX. And that is where the money is made BIG time: In huge mission critical applications which will gorw as internet will boom even more. Windows NT is a cute little platform for doing nice things. But try to convince someone like IRS to use Windows NT! Actually on April 15th I will state on my tax return as a suggestion for IRS to use Windows NT! But wait a minute, I know for sure they will audit me for being hostile toward them!! Regards, - Addi Jamshidi

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