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To: GW who wrote (42344)	12/16/1997 2:23:00 AM
From: Willie Lew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

GW, I agree that INTC is a great buy. There is very very strong support at $70 also. The future still looks very bright for INTC. Although it may seem that INTC is seem a down right now, it will comeback up to at least $85 or more by the end of Feb. in my opinion. For example,big companies, people always purchase the best top of the system. Do you want to buy an obselete system??? Not me!!! The Internet is growing faster and faster, DVD is coming out which requires lots of processor power to run. A slow processor will slow all other applications down. You can't multi-task much with a slow PC (it is like wait and wait). Believe me when these applications are out they are memory and processor time hogs. That is why I think people will buy new faster PCs like 300MHz. AMD and CYRX are good for computer games. Buying a cheap $1000 pc means buying another one or more expensive one in the future. Hey, buying the fastest one is like buying time also. With the faster computer, computations, compilation of computer codes, CAD application runs alot faster making it even more productive. Well that is my view as an engineer. Also, the PDA (pocker organizers) are hot nowadays. I can't even get this mini-computer from HP at CompUSA (CPU). Another market emerging. After reading lots of trade magazines and reports, the INTC price down seems nothing more than an analysis commission play. INTC is here is stay and innovate. That is my opioion, what do you think? Willie >> INTC is a great buy while the market is overly negative and before it rebound in February next year.

To: GW who wrote (42344)	12/16/1997 8:46:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 186894

Intel, Sun to spar with Microsoft on enterprise OS for Merced By Andy Santoni InfoWorld Electric Posted at 7:59 AM PT, Dec 16, 1997 Intel on Tuesday took a swipe at Microsoft, announcing a broad cross-licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems for microprocessors, systems, and software, and agreeing to help Sun port its Solaris operating system to the upcoming Merced CPU. "Customers want to have choices," said Sunsoft president Jan-Pieter Scheerder, who pointed out that Sun already has Solaris running on Intel's other platforms. Working with Intel while that firm develops Merced will allow Sun to offer Solaris when Merced ships in 1999, Scheerder said. "Our plan is to be right there with the hardware," Scheerder said. The agreement will also help Solaris compete with Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, according to Scheerder, who characterized NT as an operating system for file and print services as compared with Solaris, which is an enterprise OS. Sun is also in a better position to support its customers directly, whereas Microsoft relies on its OEMs, Scheerder added. Intel has been developing the 64-bit Merced with Hewlett-Packard, which will offer its version of Unix for the chip. The agreement with Sun won't change Intel's relationship with HP, according to John Miner, vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise Server Group. In addition, as part of its settlement with Digital Equipment this fall, Intel agreed to help Digital port its Unix variant to Merced. At the same time, Sun joins HP, Digital, and other workstation and server vendors in casting its lot with Intel's IA-64 Merced architecture. Porting their operating systems to Merced gives their customers a migration path away from proprietary processors. Sun and its Sparc chip joins HP and its PA-RISC CPU, as well as Digital and its Alpha processor, in giving Intel a larger role in its system plans. Silicon Graphics, developer of the MIPS architecture, earlier this year committed to build workstations around Intel processors in a move industry observers saw as a means eventually to move its customers to Merced.