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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (696)	3/1/1997 5:37:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	of 64865

Lets go back in history a few years when sun was much smaller. Sun has a good system. It is relatively cheap and had some nice features and Sun is growing albeit slowly. Then they get the rights to a little thing called NFS (my history on if they built it or purchased it is fuzzy but that isn't important). Pretty good stuff but it is just another way for one one computer to talk to another. And what do these fools do? They just gave it away! They aren't makeing a dime off it. Oh, they have a few products and their system implement it better than any one else but still those fools just aren't making ANY real money from it. So based on your logic I would suggest you don't invest in them. :-0 Sun makes it's money from hardware but people buy hardware ONLY IF IT HAS SOFTWARE! M$ has locked up the volume market and makes it nearly impossible for vendors to write to Windoze AND Unix so the application base for Unix keep getting smaller and smaller. Unix, till now, has mostly been for those who write their own software and most of the sales sun looses is because of that. Now if EVERYONE wrote their apps for Java.... Oh, and befor you jump in with "Why don't they support NT/Win95..." I'll tell you that up front. I've seen identical applications run on a SparcStation 10 and one of HP's fastest systems and the Suns version was by far snappier than the HP version. It is a little harder to do the same thing for Unix and Windoze because they are so different but most developers agree that it is easiser to get a good efficient application written in Unix than on Windoze. (If only they could sell them in the same volume...) As far as telling you how sun is going to make money from Java... Well, it takes a little more imagination than what you can put in a spreadsheet. > Unfortunatly for Sun, both IBM and Microsoft seem determined to > either co-opt Java as their own or try to kill it ala the last UNIX > unification debacle, by fragmenting the community with different > Native modes. Again this is an M$ trick. I've seen NOTHING that indicates that IBM is trying to do any fragmenting. (Maybe trying to have the best implementation, but that is goodness for everyone includeing sun).

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