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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (19598)	9/13/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear Cheryl: Dont remember but a nice thought!! JDN

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (19598)	9/13/1999 2:47:00 PM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Respond to of 64865

Yes Cheryl, I remember clearly that Addi saw MSFT eventually becoming a sort of "subsidiary" of SUNW. He had great foresight. He meant that to reflect the eventual success of the server centric / thin-client network that SUNW was creating. MSFT would find a growing amount of its revenue would have to shift from the desktop and come from network applications utilizing JAVA. Good for SUNW, good for MSFT, but MSFT would no longer be playing to a monopoly and would have to compete head to head with other software companies. The computing model MSFT was following, however, would be SUNW's utilizing java. If SUNW's Sun Ray HOT DESK architecture succeeds, as I believe it must, MSFT must focus part a part of its business on providing software to this model, i.e. network applications like StarOffice-- the Microsoft Office Portal perhaps. He also said MSFT would take over the highways that digital info would travel. Could this be CSCO's announcement of liaison with MSFT on it new IP initiative? dailynews.yahoo.com Friday September 10 10:56 PM EDT Cisco kicking off major voice/data, QOS initiatives John Rendleman and Paula Musich, ZDNet <<Cisco Systems Inc. next week will embark on an ambitious effort to improve the performance and openness of its networking products. The networking giant will unveil two major initiatives at NetWorld+Interop in Atlanta: one to more broadly integrate voice, data and video in a range of its equipment and a second to provide policy-based networking capabilities it co-developed with Microsoft Corp.>>> .... Hope its more stable that other MFST products have been. All the best, Michael