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

To: cfimx who wrote (20358)	9/28/1999 10:29:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

qwik, correct me if i'm wrong, but you seem none to enthused with the german heritage of sun.com's newest addition. It's not the German part, it's the semi-localized-software part about Star Office that leaves me less than breathless. It's too amateurish. Some of my best friends are Germans<g>. thought you might enjoy this too from the wsj! can sunray.com do THIS? No, the sunray can't do that and manipulation of digital content is IMHO going to be the single biggest thing that helps keep a general-purpose PC alive. Between MP3's and CD recorders and cheap 2-megapixel digital cameras and cheap DV video recorders and cheap 20-GB disks and surround-audio and quasi-free hi-res scanners and cheap photo-quality printers and desktop RAIDs and billion-triangle 3D accelerators and MPEG decoders and (soon) DVD burners plus fast processors that let software make it all easy, any random bag lady can go start a content production studio for $5000. And it's getting more like that every day. Even when there's enough bandwidth and ISP storage to support that kind of activity over a portal link, which is a long way off, you still need too many local doohickies for that kind of job. It rules out a SunRay. However, a) that's not what people do at most offices, and b) even in homes that kind of activity will always constitute a tiny minority of total computer use. Even if there's an armored content-production PC in your house, you'll still have one or more mail-games-surf Sunray-type boxes (or Web Companions) attached to portals. Thanks for the article. --QS