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To: Scumbria who wrote (67401)	10/26/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria - Re: "NT is not up to the job of running the NYSE. For better or worse, Intel is closely tied to NT." Of course it isn't. I'll bet the NYSE is running on whatever it ran 15 years ago - but in an updated mode. However, I do know that Instinet (Reuters) DOES RUN on Intel Pentium Pro/Pentium II servers and Windows NT. Instinet is MUCH SMALLER than the NYSE, of course. And, NASDAQ uses Intel-based Servers for their QUOTE systems although I'm not sure what they use for their actual stock transaction processing. Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (67401)	10/27/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, I don't know where you live, but there is an ad by Sun Micro in the San Jose Mercury News this morning that you'd love. It's three full pages and one of those that's mostly white paper background with only a few words in big black letters. First page: THINKING OF RUNNING YOUR CRITICAL APPS ON NT? ISN'T THERE ENOUGH WORLD SUFFERING? PICTURE OF SALLY STRUTHERS Next 2 pages: INTRODUCING SOLARIS 7, THE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE NETWORK AGE, ETC., ETC., ETC. Sun pretty outrageous and irreverent, as usual. Irreverent to what? Nobody, I guess, with IBM, HP, FJ, Sun, SCO and everyone else rushing to support UNIX, or variants of it like Solaris on PA RISC, SPARC, IBM RS---- and Merced, who does care that much about NT? It's beginning to look very clear that Microsoft is going to be outside the candy store looking in when it comes to the vast majority of 64 bit computing, even when Merced, the chip from their old "partner" is shipping. Tony