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To: marvin litman who wrote (20766)	10/6/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: tiquer	Respond to of 64865

I posted this some time back... Was an article referencing the 5% thing... Message 11080654 Cheers, Roger Hey... looking back on my prediction at the bottom of that post... Where is James lately??? Is he jealous of all the attention Twiter gets??? Or, maybe he's behaving for fear of getting the SI boot... Also, from that post it wasn't Reggie who said Java was a fraud..

To: marvin litman who wrote (20766)	10/6/1999 4:58:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Marvin, The e-commerce business is running @around $700 million right now. Not a huge business yet. It is still a fairly small component in the internet itself. It is growing & gaining momentum daily (obviously) and is predicted to be $3billion + in the next 12-18 months. That's still pretty small. When you consider the potential for electronic enterprises, it's a drop in the bucket. Once successful business models are developed and a tradition is established it will REALLY take off. I can see exponential growth in 3-5 years. So, yes, the e-commerce need for servers will grow right with it. The 5% figure is, naturally, an estimate I read in a report about 1 month ago. I don't remember where. I don't think it takes an MBA to understand the room for growth in the server market and what is going to driver that growth. Sun's original vision for the future of computing, from as long as 5 years ago, is just beginning to come to fruition.