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To: cfimx who wrote (9520)	5/4/1998 3:43:00 PM
From: SSS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I wish the sunw PR department would send me a check every now and then, but I'm sorry to disappoint you - I have a rational reason for posting here. I've been a user and software developer on Sun systems (and PC's, and Macintosh) for the last 10 years. Because I've had success using Sun's products, and my employers have had success selling software that runs on them, I also became a sunw shareholder in 1995, and have enjoyed a nice ride up (about 400%) since then. Now, twister, what's your story? ps. PC "workstations" are being marketed as "power user hardware" to PC users on testosterone trips. there is much overlap between the PC "workstation" and the "high-end" PC market - not surprising since they're the same machines in a different box. Statistics on "PC workstation" shipments are not a reflection of SUNW's strength or weakness in the scientific/engineering workation marketplace, where the Darwin boxes have been a big hit.

To: cfimx who wrote (9520)	5/4/1998 3:48:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

I have heard (although I don't think there's any definitive way of knowing one way or the other) that _many_ of those NT sales displace Netware or MS's other operating systems rather than Unix. Thus, NT is being used as a kind of high-end Win-95 rather than as a workstation OS (workstation in the traditional sense, that is -- of course, Microsoft seems to be trying their hardest to blur the distinction between a wordprocessing desktop and a workstation -- in MSFT-speak /in their advertising / a workstation is anything used to do work +/-). JMHO.