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To: Richard M. Smith who wrote (5373)	11/6/1997 3:04:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 64865

I read the response, I'm not too impressed with it. It is basically begging the question, which is a typical practice of MSFT. But it's ok with me of the industry is too hung up on superlatives (X is the world's first/fastest/greatest product with Y technology running on Z machines with W OS). If the industry wants to hear those phrases alot, then let SUNW do what it sees (just like MSFT does)

To: Richard M. Smith who wrote (5373)	11/6/1997 3:09:00 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

<<They don't deny "optimizing" one of the tests by simply having the JIT compiler throw it away.>> As a long time Sun user and some times stockholder, I'm very disappointed that they would stoop to this trickery.

To: Richard M. Smith who wrote (5373)	11/6/1997 4:44:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>>If Sun indeed took deliberate steps to skew its results, Phillips was surprised at the lack of subtlety. "If a company really wanted to conceal what they were doing, they could do a better job," he said. >> Just what I was saying, its hard to believe that they would do something so obvious and expect it to fly very far. But their response didn't convince me that it wasn't deliberate either. Oh, well, Sun's credibility with me is a little tarnished now, but nowhere near as rusty as Microsofts. Judd