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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (10379)	8/28/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Reggie, >>The reason NSCP made no attempt to collect payment was to expand thier market share as quickly and widely as possible. What can any company honestly do to enforce the collection of payments? >>That is why MSFT allowed some pirating of 3.1. It is why they have allowed some pirating in China. Microsoft is the biggest whiner of pirated software and does not allow it any more than you or I would. It is one of those things that software companies have to generally accept as part of doing business; like retail stores put up with shoplifting. The honest consumer just ends up absorbing the losses like always. >>Technology has nothing to do with it either, for when I was still running DOS 5.0, trading software use to come with both software and hardware protection methods that worked quite well. Unfortunately for honest consumers like you and I this sometimes backfires when the hardware "dongle" fails or the "key" disk that cannot be properly backed-up fails. There are ways of defeating both software and hardware protection if the returns are high enough! Somehow Netscape's not hounding me for payments does not "justify" my disregarding their license agreement now does it. Leaving my house unlocked wouldn't make a burglar any less of a criminal. Cheers, Norm

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (10379)	8/28/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Solaris 2.7, scheduled for October '98 release to support 64-bit computing while 32-bit NT 5.0 languishes in the lab... Sun Exec Battles "Phantom NT" news.com "The latest upgrade to Solaris is scheduled for release this October, an update--currently called version 2.7--that will complete the software's road map to 64-bits, a technology that allows users to essentially handle larger chunks of data on their machines and will also include new clustering software functionality..." News.com: What are your thoughts on battling NT 5.0, which seems destined to ship in mid-1999 at the earliest? McFarlane: We've been battling NT 5.0 for about three years. Microsoft comes up with all these charts and hype. It's really hard to battle a phantom--there's some figure in the mist with some alleged functionality. It's delayed again. I hear it's closing in on 40 million lines of code. Solaris is 11 million lines of code: very tight, very well structured, highly reliable. God help me, I don't know how they're going to make 40 million lines of code work when 20 million-plus of it is new vs. 4.0. They keep saying that the enterprise offering is 5.0--it's got an unpredicted delivery date, it's got bags of code, I don't think they have a clue how to test it for enterprise-class performance. I hate to win because my competition loses, but NT is in deep trouble and I would not want to be the product manager--I would be looking for a place to hide.