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To: QwikSand who wrote (35556)	9/19/2000 8:30:25 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"The only thing I can think at this point is that Sun is trying to build a business in the appliance space and hasn't gotten much traction yet." Sun executives agreed with Gillen's assessment. When asked in an interview if the acquisition was a make vs. buy decision, John McFarlane executive vice president of Sun's network service provider business, replied, "Essentially, yes." ... "Cobalt saw this is as a way out of their last-place position in the server market, and certainly, Sun is now able to catch up and put an appliance strategy in place that others have had for some time," said Sam Ockman, CEO of Linux hardware vendor Penguin Computing Inc., San Francisco. ... techweb.com