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

To: JDN who wrote (19561)	9/11/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

<<if this Sun Ray type systems take effect what effect will it have on software companies >> JD, Other than ADBE which I have held for 8 years I haven't been investing in software companies so my opinion is limited. In general terms SUNW's Sun Ray model is built around network applications as the next new wave of software development -- Java based and OS independent --. StarOffice's real value to SUNW is not in the placing of StarOffice on everyone's desktops whether they be Linux, Windows or OS2. It's the network application "StarPortal" that SUNW is after. Available over the internet to the entire world in an instant via Java; storage on the internet via Jiro. This can only happen in a broadband enabled internet. As software frees itself of the OS it will truly be forced to compete on its own merits of design and implementation. Clearly software written for the desktop will continue, but becoming only a segment of the software market. Sun, the brilliantly exploding star, Michael