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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (9555)	5/4/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Cheryl, I don't recall the post nor my point at the time. I am not really interested in comparing Solaris to NT. At this point in time I am in agreement with the vast majority of posters that UNIX scales bigger. No problemo! In prior posts I attempted to highlight an issue that is close to my heart after seeing Data General's revenue stream, in one year, go from NT systems sales being a source of less than 5% of sales revenue to being over 25% of sales. For a 1B$ plus systems firm that prior to this was mostly UNIX, I thought that was a significant number. PS: That was two years ago. Now of course, DG could be considered one of those weak-brothers in the UNIX market - faced with declining mind-share from application developers, they quite correctly decided to - drop the Motorola 88K chip set - pick up the INTEL chip set (they had performed trial ports to SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC) - start to move away from their superior ;) commercial-grade UNIX DG/UX in favor of an alliance with the UnixWare folks, to foster more mind share with the app vendors (hey! this is how the cycle started!) As long as Solaris enjoys really broad support from the major application vendors, then they will continue to do well and avoid the fate of DG and other similar vendors.