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To: uu who wrote (5710)	11/18/1997 12:05:00 PM
From: xiangheng xu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

They are not just thinking. Read the following: We saw our win rate...versus Sun increase from 45 percent to 70 percent during that period," he said. "Our win rate has almost doubled from what we'd seen earlier in the year, and they are our major competitor," another HP executive told analysts in a conference call. A spokeswoman for Sun Microsystems' hardware unit said the company expected the new HP products, which are priced starting at under $200,000 but can be configured in models costing upwards of $2 million, will compete more directly with its Sun's Enterprise 6000 models than Sun's top-end Starfire.

To: uu who wrote (5710)	11/18/1997 12:25:00 PM
From: Pierre Aydin	Respond to of 64865

Addi: Check this out, it's funny how it's OK for MSFT to have a standard and not SUNW. Also in its filing Sun quoted from an article by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in the November 10, 1997, edition of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Gates wrote, ''Without a uniform Windows installation, end users could not be sure of the performance of the integrated operating system, and Microsoft could not stand behind its product. Furthermore, Windows would become Balkanized, like the many incompatible versions of UNIX(R). This would eventually drive prices for PC products higher as software developers and hardware manufacturers would have to develop and test their products for all the different versions of Windows. And innovation would slow because developers would be reluctant to write new programs if they couldn't be sure that new features would work on all Windows PCs.'' ''We couldn't have said it better -- except that we're talking about the Java platform,'' said Morris. ''By tampering with Sun's Java technology, Microsoft wants to put Sun in the very same predicament it wants to avoid for Windows. Microsoft is seeking to neutralize the very real competitive threat Sun's Java technology poses to Windows.'' Pierre