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To: Eric.sun who wrote (20531)	10/1/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 64865

Can anyone comment on this? Yes. HP-UX sucks. P.

To: Eric.sun who wrote (20531)	10/1/1999 8:37:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

I would think it is because SUN is taking too much marketshare from them unless it is general server market slowdown. In a word, Eric, YES, it's because of the former. SUNW is poised to hammer HWP into the wall on large-scale corporate servers and internet servers. I can tell you from personal experience @HWP in the O/S group, HPUX, 32 or 64-bit, is not a horrible O/S, but it just isn't Solaris. HWP is a fine company, but their engineering culture is older than that of Sun by about 1 generation. They know how to manage projects, but their ideas about the computer business and what customer require these days go back about 10-15 years. It's not like they don't try, but they have a big company with a big bureaucracy and a substantial tie-back to the legacy systems that had been sold 10-20 years ago. They tried to rejuvenate the company with their decision (a flawed decision) to re-market NT on their own PC's. Lew Platt lost his job because of it. Now they are trying to pick up the Unix pieces and catchup w/SUNW at the same time: a daunting task. To make a long story short, SUNW is leaving them in the dust, especially with e-commerce and large-scale IT servers. HWP just doesn't have a good answer for the E-10K & Solaris-7. I could go on and on about it, but I don't think the market sees the HWP problem necessarily a problem for Sun. They USED to lump the Unix vendors together, that is until Oct. 1998, when the internet boom began.