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To: John Koligman who wrote (56886)	11/21/2003 1:16:37 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I'm afraid I have to agree with Dell. I was taken in by that Sun China announcement, and now feel foolish. Sun has said so much and done so little over the past several years that there's absolutely no reason to believe a single word they say until you see it on the income statement (in a good way). Today Microsoft put out a non-announcement about ".Net and the Chinese government" that was more like a Saturday Night Live satire of Sun's announcement than it was about anything substantive. --QS Edit: Sun's ludicrous and PATHETIC $299 PC announcement, coming as it did immediately after they actually made a couple of potentially meaningful AMD announcements, made me want to pick my screen up off my desk and throw it against the wall. (It's an LCD and only weighs 16 lbs.)

To: John Koligman who wrote (56886)	11/21/2003 1:31:46 PM
From: Ian Davidson	Respond to of 64865

Microsoft nabs top Sun sales exec Last modified: November 21, 2003, 10:10 AM PST By Ina Fried Staff Writer, CNET News.com Barbara Gordon, a top sales executive for Sun Microsystems, has left that company and joined rival Microsoft. Gordon started at Microsoft last week as vice president of global accounts, heading the software giant's sales efforts among its top 50 customers, a company representative said Friday. In her new role, Gordon will report to Simon Witts, corporate vice president of Microsoft's enterprise sales group. At Sun, Gordon was head of worldwide software sales, a position she had held since August 2002, after previously heading Sun One sales. Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich, who first noted Gordon's departure from Sun in a Nov. 3 research note, said Sun's turnaround efforts could suffer if more executives defect to rivals. "Sun's downturn can become self-reinforcing if too many execs depart," Milunovich said in the report. news.com.com

To: John Koligman who wrote (56886)	11/21/2003 2:31:04 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Mikey can laugh all he wants at McNealy but the fact is that Dell is starting to look like Custer at Little Big Horn so they better get a move on, as they say in Austin. Dell might offer Linux but they are not perceived as a Linux vendor, and they cannot help you transition your corporate desktops to Linux. IBM can do that and so can Sun now. Dell says customers aren't asking for Linux desktops? I don't believe that for a second- especially not for multinationals. They just aren't asking DELL, the wintel reseller with no other brand notoriety, for Linux desktops.