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To: marvin litman who wrote (32027)	5/18/2000 1:43:00 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I think Sun needs to make a definitive statement on this. If they won't, it might mean they are trying to come up with a special module that will allow backwards compatibility. I don't see how given the changes to the various buses and main memory in USIII. Maybe, this is part of the long delay??? theregister.co.uk "While Compaq remains confident that sales of its recently released high end Wildfire GS servers will achieve $1 billion worth of revenues, the firm said yesterday that large corporate customers were being misled by rival Sun about moving from existing platforms to their up-and-coming Serengeti boxes. Competitor HP made similar allegations about Sun at the announcement of its "A" class boxes last week. Michael Capellas announced the GS servers at a conference in New York yesterday, while in Europe there was a simultaneous satellite transmission of the news, held in the London Park Lane hotel. The details of the announcements are substantially the same as in the story we reported early Monday. However, later in the day, The Register had the chance to talk to senior executive John Bennett, marketing director of the firm's High End Alpha Server division. Bennett, in the most forthright and plainest of terms, said that Sun was deliberately misleading its customers about the upgradeability of their big tin boxes, and said that large corporations it had talked to were unaware of the implications of moving to Serengeti platforms." THE WATSONYOUTH