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To: trouthead who wrote (12233)	12/1/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: uu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

jb: > There will be a point where adding more performance and more scalability will not continue to give sunw an advantage and NT will catch up. On the contrary, I strongly believe the more scalability and performance the more Sun will gain. Just think about it, the world is going toward internet computing. e-commerce, is a HUGE market. Do you really think companies involved in this market are willing to play with a toy like NT, or with the real thing coming from Sun which has the optimum performance and scalability?! And if you think Microsoft is eventually going to make NT as scalable as UNIX then you must also believe that the world is coming to an end tomorrow! Even if Microsoft had the technology to make NT as good as UNIX when it comes to performance and scalability, it will not do so since what would the point of having a cheap OS be?! Certainly as NT goes up in price to match UNIX, why on earth companies want to buy NT instead of UNIX? It is sort of like the same argument for not buying NCs! If a NC cost almost as much as a sub $1000 PC, why on earth would anyone want to buy NC?"! Anyway, both Microsoft and Sun will gain greatly. The intelligent thing, IMHO of course, is not to become fanatical about one over another. Regards, Addi Jamshidi

To: trouthead who wrote (12233)	12/1/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

What you are saying may be true for today, but if you think NT performance and scalability will stand still you're fired. There will be a point where adding more performance and more scalability will not continue to give sunw an advantage and NT will catch up. Maybe you can enlighten us, here at the SUNW thread, about this great improvement in performance and scalability that NT will eventually attain. What makes you think M$FT can produce a quality piece of software, something they have never done before. BTW, performance and scalability are important, but not the whole enchilada. Enterprise systems are in a different league than M$FT, and they are clueless as to what is required to compete. SUNW & IBM will have the enterprise market sewn up in 3-5 years. M$FT might as well cash in their chips & move on to something else. cheers, cherylw