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To: Eric.sun who wrote (16132)	5/3/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

You could be right on the CSCO/SUNW thing for the short term but in the long term CSCO has greater relative strength in their market segment so I'm not sure if comparisons can work; not sure about market cap analogy. Regarding the Sun vs Wintel battle this is where we fundamentally disagree. For workstations/small servers I believe Wintel has the good stability and price/performance now; based on CPU benchmark and grahics benchmarks I provided. Linux is also emerging with HP/IBM and LinuxCare fully supporting Linux configs 24x7, DELL pre-installing Linux, and scalability starting to get there with the RedHat 2.2 kernel. I see this agressively moving forward this year at least for intranet file, print and database server needs. As you mentioned co-existence is important for Sun; Solaris & NT. Most coroporations have embraced both technology to different degrees and need interoperability at least for now. Sun has moved forward with this by offering NTFS, naming and file/print services in 7.0 (as far as I know).