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To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (6227)	12/17/1997 2:58:00 PM
From: uu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

PTB: I thought you were going to short Sun. Have you already done that?! And if so at what price?! The inquiery mind wants to know! Regards, Addi Jamshidi

To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (6227)	12/17/1997 4:36:00 PM
From: SSS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

PT- i was responding to your last message, which said that sun's announcement about solaris for merced signalled impending doom. if you like to change the subject when someone contradicts you, i guess you're entitled... solaris on intel has not yet gained substantial market share because sun has made zero effort marketing it (for fear of canibalizing their own hardware sales). at the same time though, sun has made substantial effort engineering solaris on intel, such that it is a far superior OS to NT for enterprise applications (solaris wins on scalability, robustness, support, and other areas important to enterprise customers). since it appears sun is ready to start marketing Solaris on Intel (via hardware partners), i'd say they're in an excellent position to compete with NT in the enterprise market. NT may dominate in terms of licenses shipped, but many of these licenses will be used on desktop machines running office. Sun should be able to score big in the server room. SSS