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To: chic_hearne who wrote (34469)	8/17/2000 4:10:14 AM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

Give me one good reason why Intel would oppose Solaris *IF** they thought Solaris could move them into more lucrative server markets* The reason is obvious. Once Solaris is established in a large account, Sun's hardware sales force would be in there like gangbusters explaining why SPARC servers are more cost effective. Intel thinks this...and they're right. It's for exactly that reason that Sun would love to get some Intel box maker to really sell Intel versions of Solaris, which they've never been able to do. Sun spent millions getting Solaris running on the current x86 architecture and who knows how much more getting it running on IA64. The resistance is all from Intel, not from Sun. Sun's "foot dragging" is simply Intel's code word for Sun refusing to build an Intel box. --QS