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To: Stormweaver who wrote (22662)	11/10/1999 2:32:00 AM
From: Robert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Msft has an even greater problem, it's office suite is both larger, they are embroiled with a legal dispute regarding Java, and not all their browsers even ship with a JVM. I don't think anyone can realistically expect to have an office suite over the internet that is fully comparable to current hairballs, the bandwidth is just not there. These are the following possible scenarios: 1) A local graphics server that is minimally downloaded, using Citrix or iPlanet technology, will all the computing at the server. 2) A new market segment of reduced functionality with minimal dynamic code loaded from the net 3) Networked storage of files, incremental application updates but otherwise a locally stored and executed application