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

To: trouthead who wrote (17582)	7/2/1999 9:50:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

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. I partly agree, JB. The web, with broadband coming, will be a great incentive to upgrade. But upgrade to what? IMHO the answer isn't "to more of the same thing we have now only with bigger disks". The change that is coming with broadband is not (as I have by now said so boringly many times) a linear change past the short term. Local compute power and fancy multimedia hardware, yes. But will I really need to have umpteen-megabyte personal copies of Microsoft Access and Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft Dinosaur Droppings permanently local to any of my several Windows-on-the-Web? Or a "tool bar" full of sample spreadsheets that I never look at permanently at the top of any of my several screens of various sizes? Nah. I can easily envision a broadband, richly data- and compute-intensive web-based future, with all kinds of new applications and a computing experience that is at once much more elaborate than and very different from what we are used to today, where there are no PC's and there is no Microsoft. Easily, in the sense that I think that is the natural extrapolation of our current Microsoft-bound state, not a world of fancier PC's talking on the web. But, hey, you might be right. And I'm with you on the peace and love part. Regards, --QwikSand