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To: Michael Do who wrote (41889)	4/12/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: Epics	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Someone should start a site to get democrats dumped from Office. I never vote and I will vote this time for the democrats even though I have voted democrat my whole life. By By gore.

To: Michael Do who wrote (41889)	4/12/2000 4:06:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

1. Sun doesn't have a monopoly in servers, and doesn't even make SPARC CPU's. Sun systems are competitive with Wintel. Solaris is cheaper than NT. 2. I don't know what you're talking about. What's an IM? Besides, users of Windows should be quite familiar with the procedures for reformatting their hard disks and reinstalling the OS, so no big deal. JMHO.

To: Michael Do who wrote (41889)	4/12/2000 4:40:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

1) SUNW monopolizing SPARC and charging more - because comparable NT workstation sucks. People are WILLING to spend more for the power. Those who are not, are switching to Mac G4 systems. No anti-competitive here. Simple case of pay for what you get and people are not willing to pay for the MSFT no matter how cheap. 2) AOL and IM - Litigation on Microsoft stopped them from piggybacking off of AOL's IM server. MSFT can create all the IM software they want. No one is stopping them. When they steal the service and make AOL pay for the server traffic and maintenance that is involved, that is illegal. So they stopped doing it. People just did not want the MSFT IM software going through Microsoftnet because again, it sucked. Another example of MSFT trying to stomp the competition and getting burned by the legal system. That is why AOL has 80 percent of the market. Personally, IM is cute, but it's a security violation. It pokes holes in the network firewall. As a network manager, I squash that whenever I get the chance. -Bill_H