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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (30245)	4/6/2000 10:05:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Re: "Did Sun announce the shipping of Ultra III's by Sept 2000??? They claim they are on schedule." You can't be serious. Sun originally claimed UltraSparc III processors would sample by mid 98. We should have seen systems by mid 99. sun.com Re: "If Sun's competitors come out with a better hardware technology 3-6 months before Sun ships the Ultra III, I don't think it will make a big difference in purchasing decisions, unless they don't deliver in performance what they had promised." Where have you been sleeping these last 6 months? IBM (one of Sun's competitors) came out with better silicon technology last Sept with the S80 series. They have now extended that technology throughout the RISC 6000 line. New technology will be incorporated into much faster systems AGAIN by year end before Sun responds with anything. Of course, you probably think all that really matters is the "architecture thingy" THE WATSONYOUTH P.S. I hear Sun is desperately looking for quantities of real fast 8MEG ECC SRAM. I don't think they can ship UltraSparc III systems any time soon without it.