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To: JC Jaros who wrote (23311)	11/22/1999 11:15:00 PM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Thread: SUNW is one of the stock recommendations in the latest issue of the _Investor's Digest_: "Sun's Always Rising Dominant Internet-based hardware should keep Sun Microsystems soaring, says Daniel Morgan, editor of _Morgan Growth Stock Report... [snip out a LOT] Sun Microsystems continues to gain momentum as the premier Internet-based provider. Currently 10 of the top 12 ISPs use Sun's operating systems. Also, 75% of all Internet traffic goes through its hardware. Buy." Lynn

To: JC Jaros who wrote (23311)	11/23/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I'm going to look further into N-tier distributed product/services. You need look no farther than Sun since the absolute walkaway market leader in this sector is Forte. Is this something that is typically Java based? Actually, real enterprise-class Java-based distributed systems are still a not-quite thing. Forte's SynerJ is as close as you will get, by a long shot, but server-side Java execution is still a 2-3X performance penalty over doing the same thing in C++ (or in an OO4GL like Forte's TOOL that compiles into C++). So, unless your requirements aren't very demanding right now, one would be advised to use TOOL for any application requiring immediate deployment. In a couple of years this gap should narrow to something like 1.2X where server-side Java would be acceptable, but one would still have a 3X productivity benefit from doing the development in TOOL. Hence, my vote is to use the Java for the client to provide very high levels of portability and minimal maintenance (because the browser will automatically provide new updates) and stick with TOOL for the server.