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To: Mike Milde who wrote (28183)	2/23/2000 12:55:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

As far as I know there have been no attempts by Microsoft to port Windows to high-end Sun servers, or any other large systems for that matter. W2K on Solaris, I love it! Actually, there is a serious contrast here ... porting Solaris to Intel was a very managable task; I'll bet porting W2K to Solaris would be really ugly! There is actually one MSFT product I wish they would port, MS SQLServer. I haven't actually used it yet, but I gather the 7.0 version is quite reasonable and I could use a good solid SQL database which didn't involve the pain of Oracle. Does anyone know if MSFT is contractually prevented from doing a Unix port or is this just more head in the sand?

To: Mike Milde who wrote (28183)	2/23/2000 4:22:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun sells hardware servers and Solaris bundled. This is an anti-trust violation if the firm is dominant. Top servers are a single industry (IMO -- TPJ's mileage may vary). DOJ forced IBM to unbundle hardware and software in big iron years ago. If Sun does not offer or facilitate Windows on its hardware servers, or Solaris on other non-Sun platforms, it runs a risk. Microsoft, of course, developed windows for MIPS and Alpha as an accommodation to those (small) communities, but dropped them which exposed it to monopoly charges on x86 based server industry (for which TPJ dinged them by defining x86 as an "industry." Finally, no one has to have grounds to file an anti-trust suit. As a union leader said when he was asked by a cabinet officer for the grounds of his excessive wage demands: "Grounds? Coffee grounds! I don't need no stinking grounds."