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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (9524)	5/4/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Charles, I've heard the exact same thing. A disk-drive company in the valley tried to replace their engineering & admin workstations (HPUX) with NT & finally gave up trying. They're sticking with Unix. They do have a couple NT servers in operation, though, as print servers for the secretarial staff.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (9524)	5/4/1998 4:44:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

you guys can SPLIT hairs as much as you want on the workstation debate. But I don't think you are going to get the newshounds from Techweb, News.com, and ZDnet to see it your way. As soon as they get the press release, they post it. And you know how cpq dell hwp ibm and now sgi will spin it. The interesting question becomes, when does sunw replace the w with an s for their stock symbol. You know, even they don't like to talk about the workstation, or lack of, business. It is literally disappearing. But like I said, we'll go on pretending around here that it's not.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (9524)	5/4/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

I have an NT license at work and I use it for telnet and mail right now as we are running from NT and developing new apps on Unix. If I have the time my work machine is going to be running Linux. The company will probably purchase an NT5.0 upgrade for me even if I ask them not to. Also, all our machines come with Windows 95 and we immediately format them and load NT (another copy sold). My machine at home also has NT on it. I use it only to run things once in a while that won't run in Linux, or Solaris. So here are my 2 copies of NT that basically do NOTHING. MS has the money for them, but why they deserve it I do not know. I suspect that there are literally Millions of copies of NT out there doing nothing just like mine are. Every Unix box I see is doing real work. Judd