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To: EnricoPalazzo who wrote (44953)	7/27/2001 12:36:37 PM
From: tinkershaw	Respond to of 54805

but it's also possible that Sun will simply crush BEA. This is a bit difficult to fathom and seems close (not equivalent but close) to saying that "it's also possible that IBM will simply cruch MSFT." If you look back in retrospect because I'm sure that is what most people were thinking back in the mid-80s. Not that I'm saying BEAS is the next MSFT or should be declared a gorilla or something, but quite simply the software that runs on the Sun server is more important in selling that Sun server than is the Sun server itself. A little market evidence. If the choice of WebLogic vs. iPlanet was such a commodity choice, and iPlanet is now such a mature and fully featured rich product, and J2EE is J2EE, no matter what proprietary package and tools are put around it, then why is SUN not just bundling iPlanet with its servers? Wouldn't it be more convenient just to buy the whole thing with one swell swoop? And how could BEAS compete with such a bundling? AFter all one application server is just like any other. Answer is because it matters. And because people choose to buy Sun servers not because they want a server but because they want something to run WebLogic on. Tinker