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To: Mephisto who wrote (16044)	5/1/1999 1:36:00 AM
From: LKO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Many months ago, I asked someone on this thread why Sun did not improve their graphics. Someone answered that there was room for Sun to improve their graphics but Sun might not want to push the company further into that market. Do you have an opinion? Not really. My most graphics intensive applications is surfing up pretty pictures on the Web <VBG>. That is mostly 2D. I don't use 3D graphics so don't claim to understand the technology. But like many people on SI, does not prevent me from "following" companies and investing based on a high level view. In general terms, I suppose it is just a decision Sun probably make based on cost, sort of what memory or disk drive to use in designing a box. Workstations do have some Graphics intensive applications and I am sure some of them will become available on Wintel platforms as they improve but that is the outlook well understood many years ago and is not really News for the Sun stock. If they want to play in their market and compete, I am sure some product group at Sun will understand the score where they stand in serving that market and do their best to compete. In any of these specific areas, it is possible for something else to be better, but surely the whole package from Sun does work well so people use them... My assumption is that SGI probably had better products from Sun in graphics area, but SUn probably offered more overall value. <OT> I did used to have a friend working with expertise in 3D graphics working at Evans & Sutherland company but I am not if he or the company exists now :-). A year (or more?) ago TDFX was a hot stock being pitched at Motley Fool site (http://www.fool.com) and at that time I did do what you can vaguely call "research" into the PC and gaming graphics companies and ...became aware of Nvidia and their cards which are the high end and supplied to Dell. I ended up making some money on TDFX stock and losing much more the card maker STBI and SIII and that has taught me that I really don't understand that space well enough to invest . (Now TDFX and STBI are merging, but would not recommend their stock). When I followed and invested in that area Nvidia wasn't public and investing there was not an option then Internet stocks became a more interesting hobby and I ended up being lucky there and forgot about following PC graphics companies.:-) It is a R&D heavy area with a lot of cut-throat competition from a lot of companies. Every few years the current King gets dethroned by an upstart and the current King seems to be Nvidia. The will probably do good for the short term, but again, trust your hubby more in this area. I have a poor track record of losing money when I last invested there.