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To: Dragon 1 who wrote (42712)	12/18/1997 10:14:00 AM
From: Willie Lew	Respond to of 186894

Hi ALL, Did any one see the news and think of the SUN and INTC deal? It is a BIG win win for SUN and INTC. INTC is expected to make enormous profits on the MERCED and it is beginning to happen wit LESS dependence on MSFT (not much new with WIN 95 and Win 98). A big blow for MSFT windows NT.or shall we say major...all the big networks still pick Unix over NT because of speed for one, amount of applications out there for two and more. SUNW is the leader in Unix OS, workstation, servers and will continue to be. I use it at the last 3 places we work as an Engineer. I expect these stocks to go up.... MAJOR good news to INTC, SUNW bottom line and stock price in the future... Well that is my opinion... Here's the article... and the link is: biz.yahoo.com Checkout the postive writeup in Investor Business Daily under Computers and Technology today about this alliance also. This is great for Unix as whole also.... Willie ---------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday December 16, 3:02 pm Eastern Time Sun committed to SPARC despite Intel deal PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec 16 (Reuters) - The president Sun Microsystems Inc's Sunsoft unit said Sun remains commited to using its own SPARC processors despite forging an agreement to support Intel Corp's (Nasdaq:INTC - news) next-generation microprocessor. ''This agreement does not change our hardware strategy at all and we remain totally commited to SPARC,'' SunSoft President Janpieter Scheerder said in a conference call with reporters. SPARC is Sun's proprietary processor design. In the same call, an Intel executive repeated that the semiconductor giant expects to ship its next-generation microprocessor, codenamed Merced, in 1999. ''Our stated plan is to ship Merced in 1999,'' said John Miner, vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise Server Group. Scheerder said Sun plans to have Solaris available for the Merced as soon as it is shipping. The two executives declined to discuss performance capabilities of Sun's SPARC processors against Intel's Merced, nor would they elaborate on details of a cross-licensing deal struck between the companies which Miner said extends to software and systems as well as the computer chips themselves. Miner said the cross-licensing part of the deal opens the door to a ''deep technical relationship'' between the two companies while also allowing both to innovate without the threat of protracted legal claims and procedures. Scheerder said Solaris, Sun Microsystems' version of the Unix operating system, will continue to focus on the types of critical number crunching activities that lie at the center of major corporate and governmental businesses. Microsoft Corp's (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows NT operating system has been making incursions into the Unix market, but Scheerder argued that Windows NT was first being adapted for use for simpler departmental functions rather than for core data.