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To: JC Jaros who wrote (23002)	11/15/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

JC - What's your take with SUNW and Transmeta? Drilling deeper into Torvalds's Transmeta NOVEMBER 13, 1999 INSIDER NEWS & ANALYSIS (http://www.redherring.com/insider/1999/1113/news-transmetanew.html) ...Deep throats come out of the woodwork to shed even more light on Silicon Valley's best-kept secret. "...But the media is rabidly interested in the company, largely because of its connection to Linux creator Linus Torvalds and a number of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) executives and engineers who work at the company..." ========================================================== And from Comdex Transmeta Linus Torvalds delivers his keynote speech at Comdex on Monday evening and may show their prototype for a "...handheld device would be able to run Windows CE applications without using Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) OS or Intel's chips..." ========================================================== Talk from COMDEX "...Even from this distance, one can feel the buzz from Comdex...This year, Microsoft is on the defensive. Bill Gates's biggest-ever lineup of CE devices during his keynote was more poignant than revolutionary. And what about Windows 2000? Relegated to a press conference hosted by Steve Ballmer. The hot companies at the show are the non-Windows players: Transmeta, for one -- a chip company that targets handheld devices. Corel, too, because it's releasing a version of Linux for the desktop. And Sony because it's doing a deal with Palm Computing. At this yearly bazaar personal computing, desktop Windows platforms have never cast a weaker shadow than they do today. This is the first genuinely post-PC Comdex..." ========================================================== McNealy to deliver his key note speech Wednesday. Will we hear a deal with Transmeta and SUNW? EKS