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To: JC Jaros who wrote (47261)	6/26/2000 12:58:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Microsoft comes late to the internet party By BBC News Online internet reporter Mark Ward news.bbc.co.uk Microsoft's dot.Net strategy is a tacit admission that the company is not as important as it likes to think it is. To hear Bill Gates talk on Friday, you would think that Microsoft was leading the computer industry to a bright future. But the truth is that the industry is leaving Microsoft behind. Other companies saw the importance of networks long before Microsoft's conversion. For years, IBM has been touting a vision of pervasive computing which stresses the interconnection of any and every device and access to computing power no matter where you are. Gates is late The corporate slogan of Sun Microsystems has been "the network is the computer" almost since the company was founded almost 20 years ago. Sun Microsystems has already developed a set of office applications that can be run across a network. Many other smaller companies are planning to become Application Service Providers that let people rent software over a network. The innovators in the computer world have been concentrating on making all flavours of software work on any device and across any type of network. Companies such as Informix are working on ways of distributing formerly monolithic databases across different devices and ensuring the data is synchronised. Makers of handheld computers such as Psion are collaborating with Informix so that workers and consumers can get at information no matter where it is or what they are using to browse it. It doesn't end there. The Bluetooth wireless technology that promises to get all your devices swapping data was developed with little help from Microsoft.

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