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To: QwikSand who wrote (20921)	10/9/1999 11:39:00 PM
From: marvin litman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

I would like to get an opinion from you and others on this board. Not to get away from ourselves.....but I would like to get opinions as to weather SUNW could split another two times after this one in the next two years. You may think it's a stupid question,but so be it. I am very curios as an investor. MARVIN

To: QwikSand who wrote (20921)	10/10/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

It looks like Sun is trying to heed his warnings to me, perhaps somewhat clumsily. Maybe. Maybe his warnings are merely to mobilize the Linux developer community in the direction Sun and the money are going. The complete absense of "Sun Microsystems", "Sparc" or "Solaris" from his piece is *deffinitely notable though. XML.COM is owned by Songline Studios. Songline's street address is the same as O'Reilly's. Tim O'Reilly owns them both. I did a compare against XML.COM and XML.ORG. It's hard to find "Java" on XML.COM, while "Java" was front page on XML.ORG and Sun is listed as a sponsor. I'm trying to better understand XML politics. There's a lot to it. It's true that Linuxers are a bit focused on the desktop (witness GTK), although not as much as M$ and certainly not as much as Canadians (except you, Jean)<g>. My big unanswered question is what's the deal with Linux and Java? What was it that Gosling meant by Linux making a wrong turn architecturally earlier on? Is there a connection between that and the way O'Reilly (w/Larry Wall) pushes Perl (and now XML) so hard? The Perl Books, Learning Perl, Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook (all three, ranked top 300 and 'must have' Perl books) have dropped in Amazon sales ranking relative to Java Books (top 200). O'Reilly's Java In a Nutshell book is ranked in the light sellers class (top 12,000). O'Reilly apparently has no Java franchise. Rambling, -JCJ