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

To: JC Jaros who wrote (19718)	9/16/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

George Gilder on SUNW, MSFT and JAVA ... Planning to make Star CDs as astronomically available as AOL (AOL) disks of yore, Sun will also offer the Star suite over the net, using a Star Portal system based on Java. Following the pattern of free email, fax, and instant messaging schemes offered by Microsoft over the net, Sun will extend the freeware scheme to the very heart of the Microsoft empire: productivity software. A set of icons on your AOL or other browser will allow you to call up always updated word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, and presentation programs as you wish, cutting substantial chunks out of IT desktop annual maintenance budgets that typically exceed the cost of replacing every PC in the company. Meanwhile, Microsoft was planning to harvest up to $700 per computer for the move to a new Office suite, afflicted with baroque filigrees of over-rich features and rain-forest green with plentiful new species of bugs. As I wrote several times over the last three years, checkmate Java. This is it, folks, the Java consummation that many of us have been waiting for. Microsoft will never be the same again. Bold type added by Rusty. Subscribe to the Gilder Technology Report: gildertech.com Or pick his brain on the George Gilder SI thread: Subject 16530