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To: Chung Yang who wrote (11215)	10/2/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Rakesh B. Patel	Respond to of 64865

Chung, UUNet has a long history, but I seriously doubt the run on IBM mainframes. Rick Adams started it providing uucp connectivity services [uucp was the phone based dialup protocol used by most Unix systems in those days]. Of course they could have supported their billing/administrative systems on IBM mainframes, but I don't believe it would have been the primary platform. As far as your main point goes on Sun not quite garnering the support it needs, I am beginning to see some changes in attitude and more importantly they are beginning to show real reflection in policies, licensing, and support. The NT integration efforts are real. The cost levels for the integration software is very likely to be realistic and designed to be truly competetive according to our contacts. Rakesh Patel.