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To: mauser96 who wrote (6746)	7/7/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Respond to of 9068

"It's quite possible that the systems will exist side by side even inside one company." Lucius, I had just finished reading Hardly's post in detail. And I was just about to post an almost identical comment (above). From what little I finally know about the Java/HTML model, I would think this is what the future may hold. If a client can run Metaframe, it will run a browser. So they probably can co-exist, doing the same thin-client duties, but for different applications. Should be interesting to follow both models and see how they develop. Both may be worth investing in as thin client plays. MikeM(From Florida)

To: mauser96 who wrote (6746)	7/8/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

I've never meant to imply that CTXS doesn't have a future. I just believe that for enterprise applications, Java/HTML is going to be the mainstream choice, unless Sun and their partners do a lot of things that are so stupid I can't think what they would be. It's not a question of getting back to a simpler way of doing things. HTML is the way that essentially everything on the internet is done, and all the JServer approach does is make it simpler for people to write the kind of applications that are already being used. You can't do everything this way, and people won't do everything this way. But it will be the "normal way". In general I wouldn't let personalities affect investing. I don't like the way MSFT does business, but it hasn't stopped me from making money on them...