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To: paul who wrote (22322)	11/4/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Cramer may be getting some of his apples from MSFT (this appears to be the way MSFT likes to do business, instead of earning it thru product quality and service). So I certainly wouldn't put much credibility to Cramer's paid-for hogwash. Just got done looking at a CNN piece on MSFT. They had an analyst that has interviewed Gates on several occassions, recently. This guy says that Gates believes he is doing God's work (direct quote). Is Gates on Lithium or what? At this rate Gates may be hospitalized before we ever get rid of him through retirement. The same piece said MSFT is going to be judged a monopoly, possibly tommorrow. Sad, Gates fancy's himself a wealthy monopolist in the fashion of JP Morgan and JD Rockefellar. Problem is we are in an age of individualism fostered by the InterNet. He is also in an age where wealth takes two seats back to the power of the individual, knowledge, and helping others. Bottomline, SUNW is kicking Gates ass and has been for quite some time. Anyone remember what this thread was like three years ago, if you do this "ass kicking" is obvious.

To: paul who wrote (22322)	11/5/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

Paul, I'm talking desktop. Solaris is a better OS for larger scale server based stuff since that's what it has been designed to do. Windows is the best desktop OS, again because it's been groomed exactly for that since inception. The next question: which one will start eating the others lunch? I'd say that NT/2000 stands a better chance since it already scales nicely on 4-way and based on un-official benchmarks seems to scale nicely to 8-way now; x86 iron is cheap too. On the Sun side I still don't see a midterm desktop strategy that can compete with Windows - it's either high-end expensive workstations with limited 3rd party software or thin clients that have no apps. Linux is the last chance IMHO to start pushing Msft out of the desktop. All in IMHO of course. Cheers James