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To: JC Jaros who wrote (22183)	11/2/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: Sonki	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 64865

JCJ, if i may correct Ed Zander a little, <is "light years ahead of NT> instead of just years aheaad... what scares me about holding msft is the day Dell announces their intention of selling solaris on their hw. I already know several people in Dell using solaris. I will continue to hold msft... i c it's in a down draft.. but it will pop once the bad news is out. I m more concerned about Msft futurue erning growth vs what is happening in the court. Since everyone is bailing out of msft, i will keep it (in IRA) for a while then dump on a big rally. Sun chief operating officer Ed Zander said that Solaris 8 is "years ahead of NT," in a conference call last month. Future Sun server computers using the company's upcoming UltraSparc III "Cheetah" chips will use Solaris 8, he said.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (22183)	11/2/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Mike Milde	Respond to of 64865

<< "Big scale is genuinely hard. That's a reality that Microsoft will overcome in 2003, 2004, or 2005," >> Sun can do a lot of innovating between now and then. That's practically forever. Mike

To: JC Jaros who wrote (22183)	11/2/1999 5:59:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The line I like is, "But in time, NT likely will catch up to where Unix is today, he said." What that leaves unsaid is that in that amount of time, Unix will advance far beyond where it is today. JMHO.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (22183)	11/2/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

That's a reality that Microsoft will overcome in 2003, 2004, or 2005,, or failing that, in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, or 2010. But if not, then by 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 or 2021 should be a possibility. Definitely a possibility by 2022, and by 2023 most of the bugs should have been worked out, but there will be further releases in 2024, 2025, and 2026, to the customer base for the previous 25 releases, at no cost. Bwahahahaha! P.