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To: High-Tech East who wrote (17715)	7/22/1999 8:32:00 AM
From: High-Tech East	Respond to of 64865

.... Sun Microsystems says thank you Compaq Computer edited from "Wall Street Journal, Thursday, July 22, 1999 - from page B4 of New England edition - by Gary McWilliams Compaq Quandry: Client Losses - .....The new computers Volkswagon recently installed to manage its North American operations are from Sun Microsystems Inc. Similarly, America Online Inc, which became the largest U.S. Internet company on Compaq servers, also switched to Sun as part of a strategic alliance last November ..... ..... But what is hurting Compaq most, analysts say, is a lack of new technology at the top of its line. Compaq has yet to offer the same superfast switch technology available from Sun and Hewlett-Packard Co. on its most advanced computers ..... ..... Volkswagen's computer operation, which chose Sun computers to run its new financial and manufacturing systems, had been running its operations on Alpha. Sun received the contract because it better met the company's performance goals, says Roman Pelaez, an operations manager at the VW technology unit, called Gedas. "Compaq was an old partner for us," he says. But Sun's top-of-the-line Unix computer "was the best for our operations." ..... ..... AOL's switch to Sun cost Compaq as much as $500 million in product and service revenue over the next several years. The amount is what AOL agreed to spend on Sun hardware and services as part of an alliance to promote one another's products for the Internet ..... "The two companies leading in the Internet are Sun and IBM. Sun among internet service providers and IBM in corporate," says Joyce Becknell, a researcher at market-watch firm Aberdeen Group in Boston.