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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (17576)	7/2/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

That article just about says it all...except to indicate who's going to be selling all the "proprietary iron" that keeps the internet running after the screwdriver Wintel men go on to their golden rewards:>>>>>>>>>>>>>SUNW!!!!! Thank you Charles, that was a great article. I hope no one on the thread fails to read it and pass it on. From the Economist...those Brits are more perceptive than we are. But we've got more guns. :-) Regards, --QwikSand

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (17576)	7/2/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Most of the time I stay out of the Nicoll War, but this statement seems ludicrous. "But the real rebel against the tyranny that says PC owners must always upgrade is the Internet itself. Very little web content will require PC owners to buy new hardware; every new website will prolong the life of existing hardware. Websites depend on attracting as many visitors as they can. Nobody would want to limit the appeal of their sites by designing them to work properly only on the fastest PCs." The web, with broadband coming, will be the greatest incentive to upgrade that the home computing industry has ever seen. Both MSFT and SUNW will benefit greatly from the proliferation of the web and its continued acceptance by the general public. PC's rule the front end and Unix rules the backend. Oranges and apples are both good. Peace and Love, jb

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (17576)	7/3/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: High-Tech East	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Thank you very much Charles for posting the article about PCs from "The Economist." I just now got my own free subscription at ..... economist.com ..... for those of you not familar with "The Economist," which is published in London, it is one of the most highly respected business publications on the planet .... thanks again Charles ..... I love this part ..... <<By the time firms get around to replacing the PCs they have bought in the past 12 months, corporate computing will have been transformed. As firms rush to become e-businesses, client/server computing, which put the PC at its core, is giving way to Internet computing, in which applications and data run entirely on servers. When little is asked of the PC other than to gain access to these servers by means of a browser, users will not be able to spot much difference between old PCs and new ones.>> Ken Wilson - aka High-Tech East