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To: Kashish King who wrote (6743)	1/13/1998 11:24:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

I agree with you, Rod. They are making the most stupid, dumb-ass mistakes that will result in a non-competitive product. Moreover, on the hardware side, checking out the following review of the Darwin line: infoworld.com Here, I see Sun making the most stupid, dumb-ass mistakes, but this time in hardware. Why the fk do they insist on delivering 256-bit color on their low-end systems? Even the $800 PCs have High Color. This will eat Sun alive. Right now I am typing this on a Sun Ultra, which I use enthusiastically everyday, but the f***g lack of High Color support pisses me off to no end. Moreover, since they need it to compete with PCs, they need to bundle more "productivity" software with it, as is done on PCs. And it must be supported natively, not through the SoftWindows product. Why would someone buy this to run Microsoft Office97 and have it run as if it was slower than a 100MHz Pentium? Moreover, at the beginning of the review, it indicates that PC systems offer more features at similar price points. So why buy the Darwin Ultras? Once again, it looks like too little, too late.