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To: Lucinos who wrote (17714)	7/9/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

From Sybases Homepage..that "other" 2 letter initialed vendor didnt seem to be very reliable for Beyond.com and they were "free"..so much for Sun being the "loss leader". success.sybase.com "It was clear that we needed a UNIX® system," he continued. "The only alternative might have been Windows NT, but aside from its other drawbacks we rejected NT because we couldn't get the hardware and operating system from the same vendor. Since UNIX was the obvious operating system, Sun was the obvious vendor. It's everybody's primary development platform, which was very important to us because we knew we'd have to develop all of our own applications. With Sun, we get the very latest UNIX advances immediately. Plus, it's much easier to find developers who know Sun than any other UNIX platform." Another UNIX platform vendor, sensing Beyond.com's growth potential, attempted to wrest the business away from Sun by contributing free hardware. "We tried it for awhile, but it kept freezing up on us," recounted Pettitt. "Knowing how essential reliability is in our market, we went back to Sun."