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To: ed who wrote (29182)	9/5/1999 10:27:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

ed, re: Pls do not get hot air on this thread. If you do not believe, then pls talk to you Cadence representive what is its plan for NT + Mercede work station in the future, as well as other CAD vendors. Denial will get you nowhere. I maintain HP-UX and Solaris versions of this tool, as for "UNIX is hard to use" - what are you talking about? I was talking about applications that run on UNIX - now MSOffice - that's hard to use. RE: For Sun, it did not have a major competitor in its hardware business in the past, however, as the mercede came to play + NT, things will change dramatically in the near future I guess you better call HP and IBM and tell them that. You probably don't even know Solaris runs on a 386 today, why wait for Merced. The problem is you can't think of an application that requires more than a quad Xeon running NT. I have been an Intel and MSFT investor for years, you're preaching to the choir, but your BS about the end of Sun is pure fantasy.

To: ed who wrote (29182)	9/6/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 74651

Well, if you know of anything going on at Cadence let us know - they are still predominately a Sun shop with Solaris as their development environment and their business on Sun continues to grow at the expense of hpux, aix and digital unix. Remember that Intel and Compaq are some of Cadence's biggest customers so of course they have Merced Plans - but NT is making almost no inroads after 2 years on the front end or physical verification back end especially as customers realize their is no price break (just a performance and stability break!) for running NT. Of course many Cadence engineers have a NT "workstation" on their desk - to run MS Word if that counts.