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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (6016)	12/6/1997 7:23:00 PM
From: KC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Back to Matters at hand....Can someone refresh my memory on this one...I remember the first few times I owned SUNW....Like 86-87....as in 19....not $...Sun was willing to license SPARC to all comers to get it's architecture into the mainstream...as I recall the revenues were negligible..much like Java today...My question is.... does anyone know if there are any meaningful revenues coming from this strategy today? It was my understanding that Fujitsu was a value added reseller of SUN systems in Asia but now with the following article I need professional advice...comments? Fujitsu next week will announce its first Unix-based server in the United States, a single CPU unit based on the UltraSparc RISC processor running at 300 MHz, a company official said Friday. The unit was developed by HAL Computer Systems, a wholly owned Fujitsu subsidiary based in Campbell, Calif., which develops systems based on Sun Microsystems' Sparc processors. The new server will likely be marketed under the HAL brand name, and will be called the GP 7000/200, the official said. The server will come with 64MB of main memory, upgradable to 4GB, and will have 2MB of cache, according to the official. The unit will be available with up to 32.5GB of disk space, but will come standard with 2.4GB of storage, he said, adding that the server will support up to 6.7 terabytes of external RAID. The official would not disclose the price of the new server. A long-time manufacturer of Sparc chips and seller of Sparc-based servers and workstations in Japan, Fujitsu is gradually expanding both its PC and server presence in the U.S. market.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (6016)	12/7/1997 1:50:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 64865

>If you want an example of emotional posts, IMHO, visit the INTC and DELL threads. Things here seem pretty reasonable to me by comparison. I do visit those sites frequently. I tend to agree with you, though I find the INTC site to be reasonably sane, for a site visited by "the masses". The Dell site is out of control, as it tends to be visited by "the hordes". I guess I have higher expectations of the SUNW crowd. I seem to spend a lot more time here, cause its more interesting and introspective.