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To: Babu Arunachalam who wrote (6741)	1/13/1998 10:57:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The Darwin line looks good. But I have a serious question for this thread: Isn't it too late to try to win the desktop when PCs have already won out here? Sure, this introduction may help stem the tide of Sun's existing base from defecting, but I don't see many choosing Solaris over Win95/NT. Any price/performance gains are quickly wiped out by the software (hardware drivers and applications) for the PC. Moreover, Sun has not been able to foster anything near the clone market for its line of computers, so there will not be much if any competition on the hardware side. Or am I missing something? Please enlighten me.