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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18914)	8/26/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

I just read the Jesse article, and he does seem to have a point, a very good point that I have brought up many times in the MSFT thread. I'm somewhat confused. I agree with the point that you make. I believe Sun is buying Star to give away an office suite (as most people believe). Where did Jesse Berst make that point in his article? As I read it, he makes the opposite point. He thinks McNealy is trying to compete with Microsoft on the conventional PC desktop. IMHO that is false, and obviously so. Berst tries to add Sun to the list of Lotus, Corel, etc. who failed while tried to sell office suites against M$. Missing the point. In terms of Microsoft having a lock on anything, I'll believe that when I see it. IMHO Microsoft has no lock on anything broadband, and AT&T are no dummies either. WinCE will be crushed by Java. A free Java office suite will help. As for Java not being robust enough, etc. etc....ho hum. Regards, --QwikSand

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18914)	8/26/1999 9:20:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Reg, the reason people use MS Office Apps is because of it's ease and power. Just because these apps can generate/save information in HTML doesn't open the door for alternate office products. The only thing that will is a better office product. Building something that could beat Msft office would be a technical feat to say the least. Hats off to anyone who could do it ; before Microsoft can evolve it. /James

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18914)	8/26/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I suggest you try the following link. It is the beta for a free, web based, server-centric office suite that I am working on: nuomedia.com . The beta access link is in the upper left-hand corner. I will expound upon all of its advantages in an interview with CNN next week in New York Pretty cool. I had some problems with some of the applets in Navigator 4.61: getting some exceptions and not coming up, but the ones that work (Word processor, scheduler, contact manager) look good enough for my needs, and the price is right. And the install was relatively painless, only a couple of Verisign certificates: their tools seem to use signed Lotus e-suite jar files. I personally am tired of installing the latest and supposedly greatest stuff from Microsoft every time they decide to change file formats. Server-centric computing like this holds the key. P.