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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alex Chun who wrote (19299)	9/4/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I've installed it and like it a lot, although I'm not a current user of WP on a regular basis, and have never done Office(TM). I like the desktop overlay. I was surprised at the general execution speed (Windows - I've not installed Linux ver yet). I've yet to try the import/export stuff. There's a big PDF file ay sun.com which is documentation about the import/export filters. I mostly concentrated on the desktop, browser and mail facility. The browser was crisp, as fast as Netscape, less familiar but otherwise quite usable. They have an extrnal IE option in setup. They should proably have the same for Netscrape. Between the mozilla code and HotJava, they should be able to come up with a compelling browser. The mail function was nice although things aren't were you're used to finding them. The absense of the mouse cut and paste was glaring. Overall, I'd say it needs to have an iron run over it; nothing that a focus group couldn't help with. The fact that it's community source should find eyeballs on the code this fall and winter with the geeks not flying south for the winter. It could probably stand to have a different scripting language, and it needs to do XML. I think where Mozilla failed, Sun will not with StarOffice. It's a lot of different timing things. You're right about it's not being completely 'there' yet in the same way Office and WP is. Still, as it sits, it's good enough for the majority of non power-user people (like me). It's a big fat Windows style all-in-one program. I'm not sure I'd run it on my regular Linux partition, although I can see where it offers an alternative to KDE (maybe an understatement). -JCJ