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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: QwikSand who wrote (53477)3/18/2003 8:35:12 AM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Did you see the article in which Sun says it will be boosting the power of its devices by a factor of 30 over the (as I recall) next five years?

We're still waiting for broadband internet access and video on demand to become the norm, and most of the world is still without telephones.

The Internet has barely begun its evolution. Wireless access will boost demand. Handheld and pocket devices need support infrastructure -- as they get smaller, more of their apparent power is in the remote devices to which they connect.

Retail is increasingly shifting to the Web.

Did you see the tour of the army's command center in Kuwait? We are about to witness the most tech oriented war in history. Individual soldiers are already located via GPS and linked back to HQ.

Soon (if not already) the generation of hardware in place (much of it an ancient 3 years old, last updated in anticipation of Y2K) will allow for replacement on the basis of savings in electricity consumption alone.

Tomorrow (or the next day) somebody will come up with "the next big thing," and it's bound to consume compute cycles. Maybe we'll yet see lightbulbs that signal when they need replacing and cars that bargain for their own fuel.

The industry has stalled for a couple of years, but it isn't terminal (pun intended).

Cheer up. ;-)

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (SM)
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