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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17)	12/2/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Respond to of 68

Out of the box, out of the box? Hmm... now is that out of the literal box, I wonder, which might mean an AOL freebie diskette, or built into a Dell desktop? Or does that mean out of the figurative box in which case it could be ... shucks ... just about anything! Yow! Are we having FUN yet? Out of the box, out of the box... hhhmmm... well, what does the box include? - service providers: AOL, ATHM, Mindspring, etc - box sellers: Dell, Compaq, etc - application vendors: Microsoft, IBM, Corel (?) - OS vendors: Microsoft, RedHat, Corel again - browser guys: Netscape? naaa... ;-) - existing thin-client player: Citrix? If I put all the obvious guys into the box, I'm stumped. Maybe a little box vendor? like eMachines or someone? Someone who bundles internet support with a cheap box? Maybe one of the free internet providers? Freenet? Aha! I'VE GOT IT !!!! Amazon! Rockin!

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17)	12/3/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 68

AOL and SUN Let's see, SUN developed OAK for cable settop boxes - this latter became JAVA. AOL has a new development ideal - AOL Anywhere (cell phones, pagers, PDAs, PC/Macs and oh yeah...settop boxes). Look out, here comes AOL TV! SUN has an ace in the hole named NETSCAPE. They already have developed a thin-client which they called a browser. They also developed something called WebTop (a browser which replaces your desktop) based on Java. If SUN were to take this WebTop component and work it into a settop box, meld it with @Home....we'd have the first step into a new world no? We already use web-based applications (email, calendaring/scheduling, messaging). Expanding that to "office" type applications will not be hard once the infrastructure problems have been worked out. I say this because the catalyst for this move will not be the individual consumer but small businesses looking to extend their capabilities with less impact on their bottom line. Peter J Strifas