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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (45142)	5/23/2000 6:11:00 PM
From: keithsha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Sun should be worried. How about profiles of leading Dot.Coms already on W2K like Barnes and Noble, Buy.com, Nasdaq, etc. microsoft.com How about a Netcraft survey that showed that 45 percent of all e-commerce sites using secure sockets layer (SSL) are Windows-based, exceeding competitive offerings such as Linux and Sun Solaris, which had 16 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Additional data from Netcraft also showed that 39 percent of Fortune 500 companies have chosen the Windows server platform for their Internet requirements compared with 37 percent for Sun and 2 percent for Linux. Netcraft's survey also noted that the Windows server platform leads in customer satisfaction, with a 70 percent retention rate, the highest of any operating system. microsoft.com Or that a majority of the top 100 Media Metrix shopping sites run on the Microsoft Platform (Netcraft, November 1999) <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/Dec99/ECommPR.asp> And btw, you can configure a secure legacy Windows desktop for Internet access by choosing specific configuration options for IE and Outlook. keithsha

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (45142)	5/23/2000 7:24:00 PM
From: Jack Banana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

If SUNW and M$FT do not compete in the same markets, why the lawsuit again? Curious. Jack

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (45142)	5/23/2000 7:46:00 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hey Cheryl in the words of your infamous high-sticker: "You have zero privacy now. Get over it." -- Sun CEO Scott McNealy, answering a reporter's question -- on Jini failing to protect a consumer from being -- tracked while connected to a network. wired.com and again this year in January at the CES trade show: "If I could embed a locator chip in my children, I would do it right now," the Sun Microsystems CEO said during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show... zdnet.com and Sun Corp's track record on privacy: wired.com