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To: Sonki who wrote (11437)	10/28/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

[ what do u think of IBM's deal w. SCOC? is that a threat to msft or sunw? ] From what news reports say at moment IBM & Intel joint effort is threat to MSFT NT. SUNW makes higher end products. I think! Sounds like a funeral wake around here. Has no one on the thread heard about great publicity that Sun's new Solaris is getting? Definite setback for MSFT.

To: Sonki who wrote (11437)	10/28/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun Wins Set-Top Box Software Deal With Leading European Digital Television Technology Provider BetaResearch Kirch Subsidiary To Deploy Set-Top Boxes Based On Sun Embedded Operating System Technology biz.yahoo.com >>judd, sunw making 4% move compare to dell 2.x% ibm 1.x% move. ibm making new hi. what do u think of IBM's deal w. SCOC? is that a threat to msft or sunw? Sun goes in waves, I was good at predicting them last year, but not so good this year. From what I know, I would say bad for Microsoft. What I have read so far says the same thing. These companies already compete against Sun. They want to make a better product. A better OS is only going to hurt companies with a worse OS. I suppose if their OS is really a lot better than Solaris, or their marketing is awesome it could hurt Sun, we'll see. >>are u long IBM also? No, I don't know that much about them. I think my company paid around $3000.00 for the darwins about 6 months ago. Its low end, but it flies compared to the average PC. I think you can buy an adapter to use a "regular" monitor with a Sun. The Sales people there should be able to tell you more than I can. I didn't order the stuff myself. I like good monitors also :) Judd

To: Sonki who wrote (11437)	10/28/1998 10:32:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

making new hi. what do u think of IBM's deal w. SCOC? is that a threat to msft or sunw? This IBM/SCO thing is a bit of a too little to late thing to be competitive with Sun ANYTHING. On top of that, it's been attempted before. They (thoughfully) asked Sun if they wanted to join this consortium and Sun, exercising their option to, laughed. Unix server growth is OUTSTRIPPING NT growth (already). How much of that growing Unix pie slice does AIX (IBM) and UnixWare (SCO) represent? a: not much Article link and subsequent Slashdot discussion slashdot.org JCJ