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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (20732)	10/5/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I agree. I just thought it interesting how confident those on the Intel thread were, regarding Intel's foray into the server marketplace. It seems to me that the shift from desktop to server will place greater emphasis on total system performance versus raw CPU performance, and likewise reliability and maintenance. My perspective is that the total systems integration solution provided by Sun is superior to that of all other server vendors, except possibly IBM. IBM have blown hot and cold on their AIX servers, and seem to be split between pushing there, and pushing NT servers. So the remaining gorilla is Sun. Another possible threat would be for Dell/Compaq to break with Microsoft, purchase RedHat or one of the other Linux companies, bring it in-house and work on end-to-end systems integration. Even if that happened, it wouldn't be as stable or good as the Sun solutions for 2-5 years in my estimation. Microsoft's Windows NT solutions have been so poor at servers, that I don't even see them as a force in the Internet server marketplace. Even if they manage to deliver all the promises of Windows2000, it still has a flawed architecture (global DLL's versus application-specific shared-libraries, boot-time device drivers versus loadable/unloadable drivers) compared with Sun and Solaris. Thoughts? P.