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To: micromike who wrote (9559)	5/4/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: micromike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun cuts prices, debuts new chip news.com Sun Microsystems will announce price cuts on its workstations tomorrow and introduce a high-end system with Sun's fastest chip yet. While Unix workstation sales have remained relatively flat in comparison to Windows NT-based workstations, the lower end Ultra 5 and 10 machines have turned out to be fairly good weapons for Sun in combating products from PC vendors. "They've done a pretty good job on the workstation front in keeping up with Windows NT," said Peter ffoulkes, workstation analyst at Dataquest. ---

To: micromike who wrote (9559)	5/6/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Mike - Here is Digital's response to why their UNIX product is better than Sun's Solaris. Any idea as to what Sun's upgrade path is for customers that plan to utilize the Intel Merced processor and need scalability? Will they have to eventually upgrade to a SPARC processor? EKS ====================================================================== techweb.com From the article: QUESTION: That doesn't explain what Digital Unix offers better than Solaris. Could you elucidate? ANSWER: We believe we have a very compelling value proposition to the Intel and the Unix community relative to Solaris. Although Sun won't say this, when you talk to people they're recruiting, Sun is not putting all of Solaris on IA-64. They are withholding the scalability functionality. If you look at the organizational structure, Solaris is owned by SunSoft. But the scalability function is owned by Sun Microsystems Computer Corp., the folks who own the Ultra Enterprise 10000. That stuff is not going to get ported.