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To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (27923)	2/17/2000 6:37:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Can't we all just get along?? It's Gates or *be Gates in this world, baby. <g> I'm pretty sure Sun provoked this epicurian hostility with many previous suggestions that M$ "eat" one thing or another. -JCJ

To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (27923)	2/17/2000 6:38:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

You make a good point, Frank. Right now, SUNW & M$FT are mostly in different market segments from one another. Not much overlap except in the low-end office market. The problem is M$FT has pretensions of getting into the corporate enterprise market where they have been stung by criticism from all sides about their incompetence as a software company when it comes to servers. They also know that they need to DO SOMETHING FAST, because the desktop market in business and at home is under significant pressure now from internet-enabled devices of all kinds, none of which seem to run anything written by M$FT. All this bravado from Ballmer proves that his company is being squeezed from all sides and they need to show that they still "have it". While he squeals like a stuck pig and John Dowd accuses the DOJ and SUNW of collusion to destroy M$FT, the world still goes on. M$FT's continued success will depend on the quality of the W2K product and not anyone's personal vendettas.