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To: Hardly B. Solipsist who wrote (6743)	7/6/1999 10:27:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

"In general the momentum in the enterprise software sector is toward this sort of browser-based application, if only because there is so much internet content that already uses browsers." Hardly, Appreciate all you've done to educate me/others on the Java/HTML thin client solution. And your browser comment certainly is factual. I still can't wait to see how Microsoft is going to deal with that aspect. Something always seems to crop up that I never dreamed of before and may reshape the entire thin client paradigm. I understand what you said and I'm not 100% sure myself if a mouse movement is relayed back to the server via the Citrix model. I feel fairly confident it's not. Only mouse clicks are from what I recall. On the same subject, can you tell Lucius and I, if the same model(Java/HTML) Larry Ellison is proposing for his RDBMS databases, can be adopted to deploy Microsoft Office type programs? Of course, I don't mean Microsoft specifically, but can a word processing app be written by a third party that would essentially function the same way that apparently Oracle's 8i program does? I've listened to LE speak about his thin client model, but he never seems to address this specific aspect (or I didn't understand him). But of course he is selling databases and that is what he sticks to when speaking about his vision of the thin client world. Thanks, MikeM(From Florida) PS Back a few posts you can find a most interesting article that Lucius found that basically ends up saying that the Java/HTML vision will ultimately(they say 2002 but I think that is highly unlikely) win the thin client battle. Here's a direct link to the article: networkcomputing.com

To: Hardly B. Solipsist who wrote (6743)	7/8/1999 9:36:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

"Since JServer, the product name of the Java engine in the RDBMS, is bundled with the Oracle database, it's too early to tell how well the Java engine is selling." Hardly, "JServer." That's a pretty catchy name. I like it. I'm assuming that the JServer is only in the 8i product from Oracle. Is this accurate? A few months back, Citrix purchased a Java specialist, APM. So Citrix is working on the Java model, but as far as I can tell(which isn't much), it has little to do with our Java/HTML discussion. But apparently Citrix is creating a thin client model that will do Java processing on the server. That's about the limit to my knowledge. Here's a link to my post on it: techstocks.com Thanks, MikeM(From Florida)