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To: Stormweaver who wrote (17872)	7/14/1999 6:18:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

> In your model you have to buy different iron if you lock into > proprietary iron first. Don't change my words!!! I said you *CAN* buy proprietary iron. And it doesn't have to be first. > If you stick to an open iron solution > and open software solution in the long run your better off. You're right. IFF I can find all the things I need in open iron ($3000) AND open software ($100000+time & effort) I might save ~$200 (.02%). But those are mighty big ifs. However, If I can get the software I want I "DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT THE HARDWARE I GET". Once again "I CAN get the proprietary iron if it works for me better, OR I can get the open one (if you can really find one). As I can see you have no clue about this subject either, this is the last I say to you about it.

To: Stormweaver who wrote (17872)	7/14/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Didn't they teach you anything at McMaster, Jimmy? Sun is the one providing open solutions, not Microsoft. Open means you aren't forced to conform to whatever one vendor (like Microsoft or Intel) chooses to set as the "standard," and that such things as interfaces and protocols are visible and available to all rather than hidden or protected. Also, there are often independent/multi-vendor/collaborative standards or steering bodies influencing the direction taken by "open" technology; the closest thing Microsoft has is a focus group. The "proprietary iron" is the Wintel stuff. Microsoft has sole control of what it puts into Windows, and Intel has sole control of what it puts into its products. Each has exercised that control for its own benefit rather than for the benefit of its customers, whenever those interests have clashed. JMHO.