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To: Anne Harrington who wrote (10383)	7/9/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

This is just today's restatement of the usual Sun-basher's mush. All three of the "recent developments" on which the reporter's "concerns" are based have nothing to do with reality. Sun can't build its new desktop machines fast enough to fill orders (which is in fact unfortunately reminiscent of Apple, but not in the way the guy is talking about). Xeon servers are not going to rival Sun's mid-to-high-end servers anytime soon; Xeon's are just Pentium II's. The layoff is unrelated to the company's business fundamentals as it is simply a logical cost-saving consequence of the recent reorganization; an efficiency move, not a desperation move. This turkey should go count heads at the Java developers' conference, then count them again at the Microsoft developers' conference. Regards, --QwikSand

To: Anne Harrington who wrote (10383)	7/9/1998 7:51:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Anne, The writer of this article (David Einstein, if I'm correct) is a typical, ignorant advisor. One of the biggest problems with the computer industry is its relative degree of complexity. It makes insiders into information specialists and outsiders into pretend insiders. This diatribe from Mr. Einstein is truly unfortunate, especially for SUNW stockholders, because it perpetuates the myth of MSFT omnipotence and is full of useless information that keeps investors away from buying SUNW stock. If I thought that the boys from Redmond had any savvy with PR & disinformation, I would suspect that the author was a MSFT plant. Since they don't, this guy is just another mis-informed "expert" with a pen. These rumors about SUNW & its supposed inability to compete w/the "Redmond Giant" were started on Wall St. and they started for a reason. My belief is that the market makers don't like competition for their beloved PC Cartel and started this line of b.s. to depress SUNW stock, and steer investors toward Wintel etal. Parrots like this nitwit who writes for the Chron just pick up the b.s. as it flows downhill and spit it out to the retail public. Before closing, I would like to say to you this: NONE, I repeat, NONE of the information in this article is the least bit relevant to SUNW or its shareholders. I want to thank you for posting this, Anne. I'm going to write a nasty letter to the Chronicle & its business editor.

To: Anne Harrington who wrote (10383)	7/10/1998 1:55:00 AM
From: Tacoma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

As a Sun owner and follower I am really tired of this line. If Unix was so bad why would Sun have sold over 150 Starfires last quarter. $1 million per pop. Why did ATT buy 20 why did US West buy 5 why did Kodak, Aetna, ARCO, Fidelity and many many more buy all of these big servers? Are all of these companies just stupid? If the looser that wrote this article is so smart why hasn't he been able to make NT run a computor system without crashing. I dare him to run any major real corporation with an NT machine I have talked to my friends at Sun today. They are very confident with their last quarter. (even though they were forced to sell all of this inferior technology)