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Re: Big Announcement - Why?
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Alan Greig <[log in to unmask]>
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Alan Greig <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:45:54 -0600
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:15:23 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Steve
Dirickson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>Being as I'm the easily-confused type, please elucidate how a HewPaq 32-way
>IA-64 server running Linux or a descendant and either Oracle or an OS engine
>like PostgreSQL produces internal growth at MS.

It doesn't which is why Carly will never really promote it. She's said
over and over again that the future is Wintel, Wintel, Wintel.

Anything else will get chopped somewhere down the line. Just you wait
until the "new HP" starts the Compaq tactic of attempting to persuade
Alpha customers that they really want Windows on Intel and not Unix or
VMS on Alpha.

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