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To: jim kelley who wrote (146498)	11/4/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

Jim - Do you know what the X86 Solaris market numbers are? There is a reason that Unix ISP's don't bother to port to X86. Although it is more than a recompile - more like a port - the cost is not in the engineering work, it is in marketing of the products, and in distribution. So far not much traction there. By the way when is CPQ going to migrate that boatload of VMS applications to Unix? VAX has never been anywhere BUT the datacenter. Not a growth market, but surprisingly stable base. I don't sense any desire on the part of VAX users to go to Unix - they could have made that choice any time in the last 6 years and not even changed hardware. That base is a lot like the S390 IBM base - they use those machines to do what they do, they are happy with the functionality and see no need to change. When you say "virtually no use", that actually means it is being used in Data Centers I have seen some shops using X86 Solaris in some peripheral support applications, much as some shops use NT. No core applications that I know of. The numbers are VERY small and exclusively in Sun-centric shops. Keep up the work on the spin. You seem to be doing the spin here Jim...