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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (8640)	3/28/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Kashish King	of 64865

One bold step McNealy should consider: Cut loose Sun's JavaSoft unit that controls Java now. With adequate investment by partners such as IBM and Oracle Corp., JavaSoft could address the gaps vexing them and other partners--and quell fears that Sun is shaping Java to benefit its $8.5 billion computer business. This has to be done to ensure smooth sailing for Java in the choppy waters ahead. Now that Java is critical to the industry, it's being put at the center of an eight-way tug of war. I also think McNealy should tone down the rhetoric and delegate the job of micro-bashing to low-level managers. They need to work things out with HP and put Java into a non-direct-profit arm of the company supported by larger players like IBM and Oracle as the article suggests. Sun will have to loosen its grip on the specification process, that's a given. They can still hold the hammer but they need to give it to somebody more trustworthy than their for-profit software buddies. I am really worried that Sun is declaring victory for themselves too early. Victory for Java is assured but they one should not count one's own chickens before they are hatched. Hell, Sun is counting their chickens' chickens' chickens!

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