geoff@desint.UUCP (05/26/86)
In article <142@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes: > Why help your rivals improve their product with > something you have invested money and effort developing? Because Sun is smart enough to realize that what helps the computer industry, helps Sun. It's called "promoting a standard". If NFS takes off big, *many* more computers will be sold. Lots of those will be Suns. Besides, it's awfully hard to come up with a "smaller, faster, cheaper" workstation when you are competing with a designer as good as Bechtolsheim. (Sorry, Andy, if I blew the spelling.) -- Geoff Kuenning {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff