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

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (19482)	9/8/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Here's a clue. The first 4 words of this text from an earlier (April) press release on the Graphon.com site. i-Planet's authenticated computing gateway will allow authorized employees and business partners behind firewalls to access server-based applications, e-mail and other critical services with full security. GraphOn's thin server-based technology will play a key role by empowering people to rent or otherwise access mission-critical applications online, using only a Java-enabled browser and GraphOn's thin software. "i-Planet is just one of the many ways enterprises can utilize our products, GO-Joe, GO-Global?, GO-Between? and jBridge?, to distribute and access business-critical applications, without software rewrites or modifications," said Walt Keller, GraphOn president and CEO. Sun Microsystems' Kevin Kalajan, Senior Staff Engineer and CTO i-Planet software, said, "GraphOn's GO-Joe technology is key in providing secure connections to UNIX enterprise applications from Java Technology-enabled devices." This would seem to indicate that Graphon is going to be playing a big role in the SunRay thing, and certainly everything else (i-Planet). GOJO may be a buy here at $7 and change. However, I think the StarOffice purchase is a non-event to most people already using Linux. StarOffice has been around for awhile, and is viewed mostly as a stop-gap measure until Gnome/KDE become Truly Useful(tm). Although the SCSL is better than it's previous license from Star Division, it is still unattractive to most developers, and will definitely not be good enough to be included in Debian. I think of MSOffice as being crap, and StarOffice as "a pale imitation of crap". What will be interesting is if SO begins to be bundled with newly sold Windows PCs. Most MSOffice users can't be persuaded to use StarOffice, but if enough PC newbies begin to use it, we could see a loosening of the grip MS has over its application monopoly. This will be beneficial to all (except, of course, MSFT), and help encourage open standards and interoperability in the application arena. I definitely consider Sun and its recent actions to be a Good Thing(tm). I thought Debian recently recognized the SCSL as kosher? I agree with the pale imitation of crap thing. I'm not sure that doesn't apply equally to KDE/Gnome. In fact, it may be StarOffice is less so because of it's integrated suiteness and having an actual end-game, which is transitioning the bloatware off of the desktop altogether. -JCJ