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To: dmf who wrote (761)	8/23/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 1794

I can't find the article. I believe it was a report from zonaresearch available through pointcast software. It was several months ago, and basically put a spin on the following: Sun's Sparc-only strategy is all the more notable because it makes the company the only vendor exclusively committed to a non-Intel processor architecture. IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co., which at one time were RISC-only vendors with their respective Power and PA-RISC architectures, today make Wintel workstations in addition to their Unix offerings. Okin insisted that Sun will remain firmly in the Sparc camp, despite the recent revelation that two of its OEMs — NCR Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. — will port Sun's Solaris operating system onto Intel's Merced processor. "Sun will continue to sell Sparc silicon," Okin said. "Sun is planted firmly behind Sparc and the Solaris operating system, which will take us into the next century. We're also working on the Ultrasparc IV processors, and we believe we'll be able to outperform the Wintel competition." Some industry analysts see that as a viable strategy. "Sun is going to continue to ratchet up the speed of their processors," said Bob Sakakeeny, analyst at the Aberdeen Group. "There's years of life left in the architecture." edtn.com