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To: Lou who wrote (9706)	2/24/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: Dave Yenne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

Infomix will be doing themselves trouble in the long run if they ignore the NT market. I hope they are limiting the no NT competition to only the workgroup applications space. They can't ignore NT altogether because then their target market will be a shrinking one. NT is a platform that will scale beyond the workgroup and into the enterprise sooner than we all want to think. A good example is the Compaq merger with Digital. This gives Compaq server platforms that scale from the desktop to the mainframe. These platforms will eventually all support the NT operating system. The other factor is the growing use of Java for applications. Java, by virtue of the virtual machine, is platform independent. As more and more applications are written in Java the underlying platform operating system will be less of a factor. There will no longer be reasoning like "it only runs on Unix" or "it only runs on NT". The NT platform will eventually have the scalability, performance, and reliability of the Unix platform. Its only a matter of time (unless the DOJ breaks up MSFT or something). IMO Informix should continue to target their DB products to run on NT. This is too big a market to ignore. Dave...