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To: Arrow Hd. who wrote (7422)	1/25/2002 4:17:31 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8218

The only way it alters the competitive landscape is by further fragmenting IBM's offerings. "Hello, IBM, we need some computer power; what would you recommend?" "Well, we have Linux, MVS (or whatever they call it these days), AIX (or whatever they call it these days), Windows (in its multiple incarnations), yada-yada, ... . And we do that on mainframes, Power4, X86, Itanium, yada-yada, ... ." "The software I want to run is available on SPARC Solaris." "(long pause) Oh." For a while, I thought IBM was moving to unify its platforms, but now they seem to be going the other direction. JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)