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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (32007)	5/17/2000 9:08:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Charles - I suppose I could go and dig up the sources - but I went through that drill a few months ago and I don't think anyone was converted. In any event those numbers are pretty commonly known and accepted in the industry, and people I know inside SUNW don't dispute them - at least in private. I also doubt that there will be a rush to buy mainframes to run Linux - it is a "stunt", but a good one. Still, with the number of things that SUNW customers are expected to overlook - higher prices, lower performance, average reliability... sooner or later it will begin to affect things. I don't think SUNW will sit around while that happens, but reading the hoo-hah responses on the thread, you might think the problems don't exist.