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To: JC Jaros who wrote (11190)	9/30/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

I was surprised to see that Red Hat now wants to expand their market to the enterprise customer (Red Hat CEO Robert Young said it would use the funds to create an Enterprise Computing division). The recent announcement between Intel and Netscape and the capital infusion to Red Hat shows that they will now have the resources to accomplish this. My concern is that Sunw needs to be aware of these changes and show their users that Solaris is the preferred OS and provides the greatest upgrade path over Linux. One way to do this is to match Red Hat with comparable product offerings, devise functionality and customer support. Although this market is viewed as "not important" or "it's a different market than main stream Sunw business", I believe it is an area that Sunw needs to dominate too. I see it similar to what Apple did in the K-12 schools to develop a mind set for their products. The small business user (utilizing a Web based e-commerce application) will be a huge growth market in the future. As a Sunw shareholder, I want Sunw to own this business. Linux is already being advertized as the preferred OS for WEB development. This is not the mind set I want to see... but rather when one thinks of the Internet...they should think of Sunw! EKS