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To: Just_Observing who wrote (19401)	9/6/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Yes. Sun made a big deal of 100,000 downloads of Solaris 7 after a couple months time. 100,000 downloads in a matter of days is blowing their minds (IMO). The big number for Star will come from Wintel/Linux OEMs loading the free suite as a value add. That, and later the portal elsewhere. You're right-on about the European thing. Also, like Linux, the Star distribution will be hard to gauge as one Star CD may install multiple machines. -JCJ

To: Just_Observing who wrote (19401)	9/7/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

MS Office is estimated to have 100 million users. For Sun to begin to challenge MSFT, the numbers will need to go up by a factor of 10. If, and when the download numbers cross a million, we may see a negative impact on MSFT, IMHO. There are 4,000,000 StarOffice users globally. If Sun can move 400,000 per week under various circumstances (download, CDs, OEM, ISVs), that would be a run rate of nearly 2 million per month. Then, there's the portal product in October... -JCJ