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To: Jim Henke who wrote (2895)	8/29/1997 7:18:00 PM
From: Doug Klein	of 4453

re: Java on the desktop You can run Java on a server and display it on a network terminal. Works just fine. Should you run it on the desktop instead? A matter of opinion, I suppose. The current state of affairs in the Java world, however, might lead one down that path. There is still a lot of tuning and infrastructure work necessary to make Java really work in any significant way. It's too slow, it's too fat, it's too immature in capabilities. It's the right long term model, however, for any hope of distributed applications to work. The reason there is so much 'momentum', (I'd probably use the word 'hype'), is that a lot of serious money has a strong interest in something other than Wintel winning all the beans. Do they think about running it remotely? Not too much, I'd say. We do, however. One last comment on performance: I think I've mentioned this before - watch for some amazing performance gains over the next 18 months in the low cost microprocessor world. Don't judge today's thin client performance too harshly.

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