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To: DownSouth who wrote (5720)	11/18/1997 7:50:00 PM
From: gordon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

DownSouth, I am curious why you still long SUNW, it is totally against your thoughts, you should reverse your position and go to short SUNW or simply move your money to other companies. >>>Fact: The applications that once ran exclusively on Unix have been/are being ported to NT because these software companies perceive that there is great growth potential there.<<< I agree with you here, but do you see another trend that applications are being ported to Java applications with stunning speed? of course not simply 100% copied. Do you have any thought about this news zdnet.com It means those cheap windows applications will be ported to java applications to run on the unix system, it takes times, probably in 2~3 years we will see a mature java platform environment. To think it on this way: if you have Solaris and Windows NT to choose, they can both run on the same hardwares, the same applications and almost the same price, which one do you choose?(Do not forget Solaris is alse improving its GUI). It is a common sense NT is behind Solaris 2~5 years, otherwise MSFT does not need scared of Java, MSFT does not want to lose its biggest advantage and show you its weakness, NT is simply not ready (but it has largest based cheaper applications). I certainly think there is a good chance here for JavaOS, Sun better hurry up to bring out more sophisticate JavaOS than the current one, otherwise the third parties will see the chance to bring their own one, here is a good example jos.org here are two recent news about Sun's JavaOS prnewswire.com infoworld.com Thinking about Java Cheers Gordon Shen

To: DownSouth who wrote (5720)	11/18/1997 11:15:00 PM
From: pragat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

NT may be gaining ground at the department and/or workgroup level. There're compelling choices when you look at large enterprises. SUNs Starfire (Ultra Enterprise 10000) is making significant inroads as the computing power shifts toward the back-end. What kind of mission critical systems are you talking about ? Could you provide some metrics ? size, #of users, and soforth. There have been some objective posts on this thread in regards to Solaris and NT. The current version (enterprise edition) of NT still has ways to go in terms of addressing key technical issues (scalability, clustering, load balancing, et.al). When they do address that overtime, don't forget the price/performance, and administration costs. Let us compare apples with apples objectively instead of getting carried away by marketing hype. Have you heard of a release date for NT 5.0 ?