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To: cfimx who wrote (7715)	2/13/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: micromike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

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To: cfimx who wrote (7715)	2/13/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>>>>>>>>>>> I don't care how GREAT or not great NT is. The MAC is great. I only know that NT is eating UNIX's lunch in the marketplace. That's what I care about. You can keep denying THIS FACT until doomsday for all I care. >>>>>>>>>> Mac's market share has gone down from 15% two years ago to 2.6% last week. It's almost dead for all practical purposes. Do you honestly think that HP, IBM and SUN would shun their investment in Unix and wag their tail before Microsoft. I don't think so. HP and IBM make a few more bucks with NT and that's why they support it. I think that sometime down the road it would be Solaris and NT - they would co-exist. It's going to take years to get NT to scale to 64 processors and more. Solaris would be way ahead by then. The future of Unix would probably depend a lot on how the thin client paradigm succeeds. That's how the Unix guys are going to sell more servers. You are right in saying that the workstation market is getting eroded by NT. Still, those applications that exist only on Unix have to be ported to NT and only then would we see a significant decrease in Unix marketshare. I don't think anybody is going to throw away their current investment on Unix boxes to get new NT's. I think people have confused the workstation and server markets by just pointing out the number of NT boxes sold. Cheers, Babu