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To: rudedog who wrote (27976)	2/18/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: Lynn	Respond to of 64865

Thread: A very good article was just posted by someone over at RB titled, "Did Win2000 miss the revolution? A great deal has changed in the 5 years it took to develop OS." The poster says he got the article from MSNBC but did not include the URL so here is the RB posting: ragingbull.com Lynn

To: rudedog who wrote (27976)	2/18/2000 2:32:00 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Dear Rudedog and all: They had an analyst on CNBC around 1:00pm est today, he gave SUNW a STRONG BUY both short term and long term. Sorry, I didnt get his name. JDN

To: rudedog who wrote (27976)	2/18/2000 2:36:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

rudedog, I couldn't have said it better myself. Your point about the lack of service from either M$FT or DELL (who seems to be carrying the water for Gates these days) is a critical misstep for anyone attempting to enter the enterprise market. For some reason service & support seem to be looked upon as afterthoughts to Gates & co. probably because of their historic orientation toward the home & office user. I learned a lesson in service & support years ago when I found out that IBM would always promote their top software & hardware engineers into technical sales & support positions. Sun itself has some of its top engineers in maintenence & support, where, in fact, all the critical work is done. Recreating bugs, reading & fixing someone else's code, and verifying fixes at the customer site is NOT for the fainthearted development engineer. I agree with you wholeheartedly. M$FT still does not "get it". SUNW's commitment to support, in the form of SunService, and M$FT/DELL's lack of anything equivalent, speaks volumes about why they don't have to worry about M$FT "eating" into their markets. Support IS expensive. But, as IBM has shown since the industry's beginnings, customers are willing to foot the bill if it means 24x7 response and high availability for their critical systems.