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To: Dealer who wrote (3906)	7/19/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

How Apple is Using Open Source Software (QuickTime Streaming Server) to Defeat Microsoft Without Appearing to Do So. By Robert X. Cringely >Darwin is the most audacious act of Steve Jobs' audacious career. No, it can't be used to make Mac clones, but it can be used to make very Mac-friendly servers on virtually any hardware platform. There has been some debate about whether Darwin can be recompiled to run on Intel or Alpha or some other processor family. It can be and will. Expect these servers to begin appearing in months, going head-to-head with NT, Unix, and Linux. While this may not sound especially audacious, it becomes more clearly so when we consider the rest of Apple's open-source offering -- the QuickTime Streaming Server and OpenPlay. Darwin is Apple's means of taking control of home entertainment in the 21st century. QuickTime is the only server not licensed on a per-stream basis, making it the cheapest streaming media solution other than Java, and QuickTime is faster than Java. To support real time streams, Darwin includes a real time kernel, something not available in Windows NT, Linux, or anywhere else. This is the highest-performance multimedia software the world has ever seen, and it is FREE. < pbs.org >Take Apple at 5% and give Microsoft 10% and that will leave RNWK with 85%.....now you go figure What is 85% of the future of Streaming or at that point it could be 100% leaving everyone else in the dust.< I don't accept that history is future but -- assuming you're correct -- what kind of dollar signs do you attach to that dominance? Yahoo! has an analyst consensus of $.14 for FY2000 and a projected 43% 5 year annualized growth rate: FY2001 = $.20 FY2002 = $.29 FY2003 = $.41 FY2004 = $.60 FY2005 = $.84 Which means RNWK closed today at 100 x FY2005 earnings. That sound about right to you? biz.yahoo.com >Please do not consider this reply hype.< I don't. >But we would not want soup to make any stupid moves. Now would we?< I promise to be real careful out there.