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To: paul who wrote (22319)	11/4/1999 11:20:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Re: "Also most of the farther reaches of Microsoft's cartel are collapsing - the PC vendors, the PC distributors, the PC software industry - the PC superstores, chip vendors, PC software developers - so microsoft is dining on Lobster while everyone else in its orbit gets crumbs sorta like Nero fiddling while Rome burned." Very insightful, IMHO.

To: paul who wrote (22319)	11/4/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Very nice post, Paul. twister- does this mean anything to you? - no company will get $5 in seed money here in Silicon Valley by having a business plan that says its going to develop a C++ application for Windows. Anything at all? Akamai went public a week ago and already they have a market cap around 17 Billion dollars. Holy Cow Paul. At that rate, they'll become the largest corporation in the world in only a few months time! :) -JCJ

To: paul who wrote (22319)	11/5/1999 8:42:00 AM
From: Ex-INTCfan	Respond to of 64865

I don't understand all this Microsoft bashing. Regarding Lobster, Microsoft has always been a "beans and weanies" company -- not one to spend lavishly. You should thank your lucky stars for Microsoft establishing desktop standards that enabled the proliferation of the PC. It is beyond the capability of ANY company to have a stronghold over the Internet. That said, Microsoft will be a player, as will Sun, Oracle, Cisco, AOL, et al.

To: paul who wrote (22319)	11/5/1999 11:59:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Let's all remember that the internet is IRON/OS independant; anyone who declares dibs is doing so prematurely. The NET is... 1. wire 2. servers 3. clients The general contention is that the clients should get thinner and the servers should get fatter. A natural idea if your company revenue is based on selling big ass boxes. I contend that since the innovation, price/performance is increasing at a more rapid rate in the PC space we'll soon see ultra-cheap powerful "PC's". This could "tug" processing power from the server back to the client since it is more cost effective - making an argument for fatter PC's (not thinner ones). Eventually as bandwidth approaches 1GHZ and we start building truely distributed systems there will be no need for hulking big iron anymore. Servers essentially become intelligent disk controllers ; running an embedded OS with a DB/LDAP client interface! Hmmmmmm ; just having fun as usual - don't have a tizzy on me! Cheers James