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MSFT: Will NT kill SUN, HP and IBM?

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With NT, MSFT seems poised to move into the hugh business arena of departmental servers. This market is currently dominated by the likes of Sun, HP ans IBM. MSFT could become a $50+ billion company with dominance of this segment! Will it or will it not happen?

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100	Traditionally, the AS400 (and UNIX boxes in general) have not been marketed as	David A. Lethe	-	8/24/1997
99	David, what is your opinion of the AS/400e? Also, why is IBM not making a stro	Don Hurst	-	8/22/1997
98	"If you build it, they will come ." does not work. You have to marke	Jalali	-	8/22/1997
97	Michael: I seriously doubt any of these PRO-NT people on the thread are profes	David A. Lethe	-	8/22/1997
96	Jalali: you guys better check this out before recommending NT. standishgroup.co	Michael L. Voorhees	-	8/22/1997
95	maybe it is the hollywood tie in for movies videostreaming off the net...like t	Freeflight	-	8/22/1997
94	Maybe by 2000, but today NT has a lot fewer apps than the Macintosh and of cour	Benjamin Ostrom	-	8/21/1997
93	KEV et al: HWP conference call at 1-(800)633 8284 code 2857062. Available	ArnieC	-	8/21/1997
92	Arthur Andersen, SAP, and Microsoft Corp. are joining forces to promote compute	Jalali	-	8/20/1997
91	...Unless you are in the top 1% of ASM coders in the country... Actually, I di	Kev.	-	8/20/1997
90	Doc, Do you have backup for your prediction? NT doesn't scale, so it can	Robert Scott Diver	-	8/19/1997
89	Ouch: No wonder you don't like PA-RISC assembler. Don't go down that	David A. Lethe	-	8/19/1997
88	...HP is not dumping PA-RISC. Merced will run both x86 AND PA-RISC... Yuck! P	Kev.	-	8/18/1997
87	By the year 2000, 9 out of 10 client applications will be written for NT!	Doc Savage	-	8/18/1997
86	I would like to point out that in my office, I have 2 Dual-Pentium NT servers (	Steve Lee	-	8/18/1997
85	NO KEV!!!! HP is not dumping PA-RISC. Merced will run both x86 AND PA-RISC bi	David A. Lethe	-	8/18/1997
84	Dan, I was being sarcastic, of course NT is proprietary, forgot to put in an e	David A. Lethe	-	8/18/1997
83	<i>NT is "open". All of the UNIX vendors dumped it. It even use	Dan Guinan	-	8/18/1997
82	...NT is "open". All of the UNIX vendors dumped it... I know. I hear	Kev.	-	8/18/1997
81	Kev: NT is "open". All of the UNIX vendors dumped it. It even used	David A. Lethe	-	8/16/1997
80	Personally I thought Sun should have merged with/bought Apple in order to get A	Kev.	-	8/15/1997
79	There are still plenty of other OSs around (mostly Unixs), I don't think th	Kev.	-	8/15/1997
78	Kev: Does this help Msft get anti-trust protection by keeping another os up and	Freeflight	-	8/12/1997
77	>>>By buying into Apple it secures the existing Apple market as a futu	RJC2006	-	8/11/1997
76	NT Accounting Software, a new thread that maybe of interest. Subject 16325	Jalali	-	8/8/1997

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