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To: cfimx who wrote (21977)	10/28/1999 11:40:00 PM
From: tiquer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun.com to Twit... Wrong again... +400% worth wrong...

To: cfimx who wrote (21977)	10/28/1999 11:46:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

NCR was a Solaris partner but also an NT partner - NCR scrambled to find a high end OS for Merced when it became increasingly clear that an enterprise version of NT was years away and they had already announced the end of life for MP-RAS (their in house version of *nix) leaving their customers with no migration path when IA 64 became available. Well the fiasco that is IA-64/Merced/Itanium played out before our eyes leaving the need for a high end OS for a chip which didnt exist moot. Solaris on Intel is a viable OS as well as SCO, Linux and Monterey (when it becomes available) it runs on Compaq, HP and Dell servers - NCR's problem wasnt with partnering with Sun and if NCR is out of the computer business it doesnt have any impact on Solaris like it doesnt on Windows NT.