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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19230)	9/3/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

I would answer him by saying that when a lot of big players are putting applications in their portals as free services, and you stumble across invitations to use free full-featured apps every time you go on the net, and growing bandwidth makes it easy, and a few people in the press wake up and start touting the benefits, and Sun (and others) are in there selling CIO's those services for their intranets as part of a broad hardware/software solution, and it picks up a little momentum and word-of-mouth, the game will be over. We will look back a couple of years from now and wonder why we even had the discussion. Office, meanwhile, will become more and more like Lotus 1-2-3 is today, plus whatever web version of itself Microsoft can cobble together...therin lies the real question. That guy on the Microsoft thread is a buggy whip salesman, period. This sounds arrogant and ridiculous, but: the eventual dominance of this model is not a matter for interesting discussion. --QS