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To: JDN who wrote (27030)	1/31/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

It sounds like a typical Microsoft press release to me. And yes, to me it sounds incremental ("build on existing efforts," "demonstrated at the Comdex"), as well as being old news. JMHO.

To: JDN who wrote (27030)	1/31/2000 2:19:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

JD: I agree with Charles. That press release is 98% boilerplate and 2% recycled materials. It's Monday. Companies announce that they're working together on Monday (or at least that's the day the PR releases come out). M$FT will have an army of PR mice pumping out W2K press releases every week this year. Who (besides maybe Sun) is going to not partner with Microsoft in a press release if they get the chance? The great majority of these releases will mean nothing, like this one. W2K will not drive machines that can do anything interesting with 43 terabytes for quite a while. Notice that Unisys, another unfortunate team of losers who are betting their jobs (and shareholders' money) on Microsoft with the ill-fated and bogus ES7000 32-way(not) W2K box, is involved in this whole thing. It don't bother me none. --QS

To: JDN who wrote (27030)	1/31/2000 4:48:00 PM
From: alydar	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

From a business point-of-view, EMC should hook-up with MSFT. They cannot have any long term relationship with SUNW. SUNW is a direct competitor with them so they have to work with the anit-SUNW camp. Also, I think that EMC is about to hit some pot holes in the future. They have been very succesful such as DELL and the other PC-centric companies but it is very difficult to keep that growth going. I look at this as an act of slight desperation. Why else would anyone want to deal with MSFT at this time. They are no longer an industry leader in technology. The monopoloy they have will only exist for so long. Plus MSFT is the company that really likes it on top! Issue is a non-factor and really shows who is winning the internet. All, IMO.