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To: Justin Banks who wrote (3470)	11/6/1997 6:53:00 PM
From: vincent bilotta	Respond to of 14451

Justin, you should have John or another employee explain what SGI put up to get into this NT stuff. the hundred microsoft employees who have been working in Mt View for the past year and a half, going through SGI's cubboard and adding SGI's jewels to NT. it's not MSFT that's improving NT, it,s the partners. MSFT paying for the development and rollout of SGI's NTbox is the scam. Alexis is right, you can't buy engineering competence, but Bill seems to be able to con it out of his partners.and now looking back, i wonder if INTC gave up the massive parallel business in trade for SGI's endorsment. vincent

To: Justin Banks who wrote (3470)	11/7/1997 1:21:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Microsoft's products ran on and with a huge variety of extremely low-cost hardware and software. They are doing a fantastic job of migrating existing users from those simple business applicances to much more sophisticated devices with a greater emphasis on communications and networking. The primary feature is compatibility with the old systems. There aren't any other redeeming qualities as far as I can tell, but the compatibility-plus-new-stuff recipe is turning into an overnight (about 10 years on NT alone) success. What's my point? Well, whether or not NT is a poorly designed, badly written bucket of bolts is not SGI's problem and if they can make their software the best-of-breed on those systems they can feel good about having met the challenge. Plaster NT SUCKS posters all over the campus but use those sales to fund the development of real software for real computers.