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To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (8518)	2/15/1998 5:11:00 PM
From: Phillip C. Lee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

Ed, There is only small portion of NT (4%-5%) used in enterprise when compared to Sun's Solaris, HP/UX, and IBM/AIX. Rhapsody is an Unix, which represents a major portion of enterprise market, and hence any software exists on Sun, HP and IBM's Unix systems, it will be ported with a little time (e.g. I believe it only takes Netscape 2-3 months to do the porting to Rhapsody). Only thing Apple needs to do after Rhapsody is available is to market it into Federal Governments, like Oracle and Sun did several years ago. Besides, Apple still needs to make its best efforts on mutlimedia and education markets for Rhapsody. Nothing will be changed overnight, hence, be patient to wait its arrival. It takes 5-6 years for NT to reach 4-5% of total enterprise market. When G4 and Rhapsody are both available, it will threaten not only NT, but also Sun's Solaris due to Rhapsody/G4 price/performance superiority. Phil

To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (8518)	2/16/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213177

<<Unless there is so much Rhapsody based software more than Windows NT software....>> Most corporations don't care about a lot of software applications. That's a concern of home users. Go to any corporate network and you will see the IS managers playing "Net Nazi" by insisting that only a handful of software packages be installed on the system. (to ensure compatibility and prevent tech support headaches. We have a hard enough time supporting NT problems without idiots installing software on their own and causing their own misfortune.) I myself have stomped my heavy black boots on users who wanted to install non-standard software like screen-savers, OS enhancements, news-gathering browsers, etc. In the corporate world, all you need is a virus-scanner, word processor, a spreadsheet, a simple graphics package, database, and maybe a browser. Any other packages will be job-related and at the discretion of management. Usually graphics and ad departments are allowed free reign to install what they need only with the warning that support is on their own. -Bill_H