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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (55324)	1/18/2001 2:10:10 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 74651

FWIW I had my money on both until last Oct. I don't really believe buy into the notion that in order for Sun to succeed MS has to fail or visa versa.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (55324)	1/18/2001 4:17:48 PM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 74651

Re: "Sun says they're going to attack that part of the market more aggressively." This statement has two very rewarding aspects: 1) Sun has decided to compete more fairly -without help from outside the business and technology fields. 2) Sun has given in to the MSFT reasonably priced product approach. A complement to MSFT's business acumen. TTOSBT

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (55324)	1/18/2001 4:53:30 PM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Sun says they're going to attack that part of the market more aggressively. I believe them. Meanwhile, Microsoft says they're going to attack the high end more aggressively" this is just marketing BS on either sides. Because, let's face it; solaris and windows (any flavor thereof) are just in the same league of crap OS (disclaimer: the author believes the ONLY REAL OS is VMS, with or without the marketing tag "open"). Notwithstanding the fact people like crap OS's and cannot see further than that, why then going in bed with the proprietary one ? With the one that even worse only runs on a crap platform, while at least wintel is ubiquitous enough to be classed as a "de facto standard" and runs on a main stream platform ? (i.e. not on one with its days numbered)