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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (11461)	10/29/1998 9:24:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun's desktop computer business, though still very much a growing business for Sun, is a shrinking part of Sun's revenue (I think it's around 25% but don't know the number for sure). People still think of Sun as a workstation company. Way far from true. Sun gets more and more of its revenue and profit from servers, which continue to get bigger. If you looked at Zander's Solaris7 rhetoric carefully, he kept saying, "This puts us in the same league as MVS." The enterprise server is the core of Sun's future business. Sun will remain a player in the "desktop" as it is known today, but that is not its core business. Sun's vision depends on the fact that the "desktop" as we know it today will be obsolete and quaint within a few years. Five or ten years from now, we will look back on the idea of a home user having to know how to "defragment a hard drive" as similar to having to know what a "condenser" was to tune a radio. If you're a Sun shareholder, please don't continue to call Sun a desktop or workstation company in public forums. Try instead to erase that misconception. Regards, --QwikSand