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To: The Ox who wrote (17705)	7/9/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: Lucinos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

I am not saying Sun severs are much better than other brands. The Sun's servers are much better than it was a few years ago. There is no argument on this. However, it has not yet fully met the fault tolerance standard to run mission critical tasks for million dollar business. If your business could only lose Kilo's in an one hour crash, then SUN's equipment should be good enough for you. No question about this. However, if it can cause a damage for more than a million dollar per hour, you had better think about it again. Also, People need a whole solution to run their Ebiz these days. To provide a good hardware is not enough for your customers. (You may see how poor Digital was, even though they might have one of the best hardware a few years ago). The hardware provider needs to make sure the common software can (and will) run well on your machine, otherwise people can go to other places for a better solution. For instance, IBM, HWP and CPQ can certainly provide a better solution than Sun (just a little bit more expensive). This is the point that I would like to address in my previous post. Please do not put your words into my mouth. Lucinos