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To: QwikSand who wrote (20490)	9/30/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

JC: This doesn't represent any port to Solaris of anything. Bill G. and Ballmer will dry up and blow away before that happens. What's to say those two things don't happen concurrently. It's just a Solaris server spewing chunks of Win32 binaries. I understand what you guys are saying. I just don't think that's the way it's going. This deal with Solaris platform Verio and the acquisition of the Win32<->*nix tool maker, and the announcement of the M$ branded Not JavaStation CE client tend to point in a new M$ direction, away from the desktop Office bloat and Win32 binaries. The rental thing is just aimed at legacy Office fat client revenue cows. That won't be a growth area. IMO -JCJ

To: QwikSand who wrote (20490)	10/1/1999 3:59:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

If everyone will excuse me for being so crude and thoughtless as to post something that is related to Sun's business but, I'm afraid, rather irrelevant to cats, bbq, the Dead, Melinda Gates and so forth, herewith another wire article hinting at Panicsville in Redmond. Regards, --QS REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1999 SEP 30 (NB) -- By Martin Stone and Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes. Whatever plans Microsoft Corp. [NASDAQ:MSFT] might have for unveiling Web- hosted versions of its desktop software, reports that those plans will be unveiled next week are premature, the company says. The Financial Times reported that Microsoft was poised to announce that it will rent out components of its popular Office 2000 suite via Internet downloads early next year and that the program would be announced during next week's Internet World conference in New York. But Microsoft spokeswoman Sue Duvall told Newsbytes that the company in not about to announce a new online offering for its top-selling suite and is still determining an approach to Web-hosted office productivity applications "that will best benefit consumers." Such an announcement could have clarified remarks made earlier this month by Microsoft President Steve Ballmer. Ballmer said the company would offer Web-based productivity services based on the Office suite, but declined to say how it expected to generate revenue from the approach or when such a program would launch. Duvall said Ballmer's comments still stand. Ballmer's words followed on the heels of an announcement in August by Sun Microsystems Inc. [NASDAQ:SUNW] that it would offer a Web-enabled, MS Office-compatible suite for free in the spring of 2000. Sun's announcement was bundled with the acquisition of California-based Star Division Inc., whose StarOffice suite serves up word processing, spreadsheets, scheduling, e-mail and presentation graphics in applications compatible with a variety of operating systems. Duvall said that, while Microsoft is looking at Web-hosted alternatives, it has no intention of turning its back on its core business - putting software on users' desktops. She added that Microsoft already has been providing a form of server-hosted access to Office applications for some time through its Windows Terminal Server technology. Sun's StarOffice 5.1 is available now as a free, 65- megabyte download from Sun's Web site, but the company said that, next year, it would be rolling out a network-hosted version of the software in a package it is calling StarPortal. Sun says StarPortal will offer Java-based StarOffice functionality via ordinary Web browsers and permit its various components to be built into other Web- delivered applications. Reported by Newsbytes.com, newsbytes.com