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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (24148)	12/6/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Thomas - you are exactly right. That is the point - the UE10000 can do jobs that are simply too large for the Intel-based hardware. Likewise the parallel machines like IBM SP (and for that matter Tandem Himalaya) require that the app be partitionable, which most of the e-business back end systems are not. So if you have a system which may need the headroom (and what e-business doesn't think they need the headroom), and you want to "just pump it up", the UE10000 is about your only choice. Of course you can get there reasonably easily off of the 4500/5500 or 6500, which is why I call the UE10000 a "magnet" - it pulls a lot more systems than it sells directly. Thanks for an insightful comment.

To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (24148)	12/7/1999 7:16:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Thomas - One area which will help to cement Sun's hold on large accounts would be a solid middleware framework. I am not as knowledgeable as I ought to be on current plans... EJB as a basis for that framework seems to have gotten traction in the last year and seems to me to be poised for wide acceptance over the next year or two, but IBM's "WebCenter" ideas seem to have as much traction as anything. Sun, which created and drove the basic concepts, needs to maintain thought leadership in that space both with developers and customers. Can you help me understand how this will evolve, and perhaps how Sun will use a comprehensive middleware strategy both to maintain architectural dominance in existing accounts and expand their reach through more effective distributed systems? I think that will be important if Sun is to maintain its current growth, and much of the probably overly verbose stuff I have been posting was leading to that question.