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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6718)	6/30/1999 5:03:00 PM
From: Jonathan Fine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9068

I may be misunderstanding the general tone of the last several posts particularly re: Citrix as an interim solution while the world decides how best to use Java. But I don't see the need for Citrix as interim at all. Neither Java solution is carrying anywhere near the real world load that Citrix already has. Sure, Java is nice, you only have to write (re-write) it once. But that is still one more time than you have to re-write it with Citrix. And because we will never live in a world with unlimited bandwidth, the need to efficiently use the pipes we have, however big they become, will always be with us. Instead of doubling the number of lanes on our virtual highway, Citrix makes the virtual cars a tenth their original size. Its hard to imagine a world in which that kind of pardigm inversion is not truly valuable. Even when everything is written in Java (?), you'll still have a huge incentive to run it using Citrix.

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6718)	7/1/1999 6:55:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

"Intel chief executive Craig Barrett and Microsoft chairman and chief executive Bill Gates touted the growth of their products together in the workstation market at a jointly-sponsored Workstation Leadership Forum. Barrett showed recent data from International Data Corp., a market reseach firm in Framingham, Mass., which indicated that Intel/Microsoft workstations are growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent, from 1998 to 2003." Thread, Judging by the figure above, maybe it is not such a mystery why MSFT isn't quick to jump on the thin client bandwagon. Looks like the traditonal fat client/server model is still running strong. It's pretty certain MSFT is keeping a close eye out on any sneak attack from Java on this model. Maybe if/when Java does truly threaten the Windows operating system, you'll see MSFT truly getting behind the ICA/RDP thin client push. MikeM(From Florida)