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To: Dale J. who wrote (58614)	6/24/1998 1:11:00 AM
From: Joey Smith	Respond to of 186894

All: More support for Unix on Intel... Toshiba Will License Solaris For Intel (06/23/98; 8:30 p.m. ET) By Jeff Sweat, InformationWeek Toshiba joined the Sun Microsystems camp Tuesday, saying it will sell Sun's Solaris operating system on its new line of Intel-based enterprise servers. Toshiba (company profile) makes the fifth hardware manufacturer that has licensed Solaris on Intel, following on the heels of vendors such as NCR, Fujitsu, and Siemens Nixdorf. The Japanese electronics giant, which has long dominated the U.S. notebook market, officially entered the American server market last week. For Sun (company profile), Toshiba's decision to license Solaris gives the OS the critical mass it needs to compete with Windows NT. "There's going to be a pretty strong alternative to NT on the Intel platform," said Brian Croll, Sun director of Solaris server products. More hardware vendors will help Solaris gain application-vendor support, critical for any long-term OS success. Croll said the advent of more powerful Intel systems has given Sun a chance to widen its Solaris market. "Because NT isn't cutting it in the enterprise space, there's a huge window of opportunity. We're rushing to fill that void," he said. Solaris can help IT organizations take advantage of the Intel machines' capabilities, he added. Sun also views the move of Toshiba and other vendors to Solaris as a consolidation of Unix operating systems, especially on Intel where Sun's only 32-bit OS competitor is Santa Cruz Operation. Sun hopes the fact that its chief Unix competitors, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, don't have 32-bit Intel-based systems will head off people migrating to their 64-bit Merced OS versions. "You hear a lot of talk about [other vendor's Intel OS], but the reality is that they don't have a product that runs on Intel," Croll said. "When people make decisions, it comes down to not people's plans and ideas, but what's out there and what works." Toshiba said it will initially focus on offering enterprise applications on Solaris in the Japanese market, and will specifically offer Oracle applications and databases. It will not just sell Solaris on its high-end systems, but across its server line.