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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16885)	1/30/1998 2:39:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Respond to of 24154

Interesting. Lotus enters the freebie fray. Now if we can just get somebody to give away hardware... Orlando, Fla.--In an unprecedented move for IBM's Lotus unit, the company will announce in two weeks that it will give its forthcoming Notes 5.0 client free of charge to the majority of organizations running recent versions of cc:Mail. techweb.cmp.com

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16885)	1/30/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan - when asked how difficult it would be to move existing 32-bit apps to 64-bit NT, said: "If you wrote your application the way Microsoft dreamed up last week, maybe you won't need to rewrite your app. Otherwise, you will." But he did note that Microsoft is talking about providing with 64-bit NT some kind of sandbox that will allow you to run "messy" applications in a special environment-but only as long as they aren't larger than 32-bits. Ah, Bullsht. AFAIK, there is only one* company that has simultaneous 32 and 64 bit application availability. Why? It's damn hard to do. MSFT is a company far from the leading edge in things like compiler and OS design, so this is something I'd be extremely surprised to see from them. -justinb