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To: David Kuspa who wrote (582)	12/22/1996 1:04:00 AM
From: Dave von Hausen	of 213177

David, What is interesting is that Apple spent 400M for Next's technology. They did not spend this to get Jobs as a part-time consultant. They must be planning on using it or incorporating portions of the OS or to get the Web Objects technology which I understand is doing well. Regarding Sun's implementation of OpenStep. About 2 years ago Sun agreed to implement it's own version of the OpenStep API and has been working with Next since then. They claimed that OpenStep will be Sun's Object technology at the time and would bundle it in Solaris 2x. Since then Sun has been quiet about this. If Apple adopts the API then Sun may also put more into selling it's version. What I'm pointing out is that this deal places Apple and Sun on the same path in implementing their OS, Web, and client/server technologies. Next also has a stategic relationship and is working closely with Netscape. Another interesting twist is that Netscape's IFC technology appears to be a Java implementation of the OpenStep API. It appears to me that all these companies are converging to the same technology base. Dave

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