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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (15852)	4/28/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) of 64865

The file system thing came up a while back and by no means is my only point. Buying PC iron workstations versus proprietary Sun iron gives the corporate world the widest range of possible OS's to run. It's also cheaper to upgrade and maintain. I can boot up NT, 98, SCO, Linux, QNX and a whole host of other operating systems; including Solaris x86. A low end 2-way Sun 350MHZ box costs 20K U.S. versus a 2-way PIII 550 PC running NT for 5K U.S. Also you'll find hundreds of manufacturers of 3rd party PC add-ons components and software. When you buy proprietary iron such as Sun, your stuck with one maybe two vendors. The competition in the PC arena leads to ever reduced prices (price competition) and shorter time to market cycles for new innovations. We will see a shift to PC's from the UNIX workstation market; especially now that Linux (freeware UNIX) is available. Linux is free,reliable now, and support is available from a number of vendors.

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