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To: Alok Sinha who wrote (8973)	4/9/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: High-Tech East	Respond to of 64865

Stanford Business School Hit By Computer "diaster" from San Jose Mercury news ..... only Apple and UNIX systems had no problems - the problems were with the Windows-based PCs. sjmercury.com Also FYI, I met with a prospective client last week who was an engineering VP at Apollo Computer in their best days (early to mid 1980s). I asked him why, in his opinion, SUNW buried Apollo in workstations. His answer, (1) SUNW used an open architecture OS in UNIX and Apollo used a proprietary OS (? called Domain ?). (2) SUNW concentrated on establishing and using industry standards and Apollo did not. That may not be the entire story, but is certainly an interesting perspective from an insider on the losing side. It seems that SUNW is using that same intense focus on UNIX today with a concentration on new standards, as in Java. Ken Wilson