On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:35 AM, rjf<fate...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting as this discussion might be, I would expect that the SUN
> people would like to see a way to sell more SUN machines.  For this
> purpose one would like to say SUN machines are better than <<other
> machines>> for running Sage because << your idea goes here>>.

In my experience, the situation is more: "Sun machines can meet your
needs extremely well for the following reasons..."      Sun likes to
provide complete solutions to customer's problems, and to inform
customers about good open source options.

> But presumably the money from Microsoft has as its premise the idea
> that they would like to say that machines running MS Windows are
> really good for running Sage.

In fact, the main motivation at Microsoft is that they want to *use*
Sage at Microsoft Research.

William

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