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To: JC Jaros who wrote (19139)	9/1/1999 7:14:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 64865

I'll answer that one. There are a couple of things lacking in the email tool: sorting mail into folders on arrival automatically, and also the setup of a proxy on the Solaris platform is tricky, and does not work properly. The Javascript in the browser is not rock-solid (unfortunately this shows up on Sun's support site at support.us.stardiv.com These are minor nits compared with the capabilities of the fully integrated package set. I was able to build an HTML page containing animations, spreadsheets, graphs and a line-drawing in about five minutes. Astounding! When the product goes open-source I'll fix these problems myself. P.