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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (24264)	12/7/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Steve	Respond to of 64865

ADVISORY/Digital Island, Sun Microsystems and Inktomi to Make Major Announcement; Digital Island and SRI International to Announce an Important Alliance Business Wire - December 07, 1999 17:42 --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Please join Ruann Ernst, president and CEO of Digital Island (Nasdaq:ISLD), Ed Zander, president and COO of Sun Microsystems, (Nasdaq:SUNW) and David Peterschmidt, president and CEO of Inktomi Corp. (Nasdaq:INKT) in a teleconference to announce significant developments in the Internet industry. Also to be discussed in the teleconference is an alliance between Digital Island and SRI International related to an important Internet technology breakthrough. DATE: December 8, 1999 TIME: 8:15 to 9:30 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST) 4:15 to 5:30 PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) DIAL-IN NUMBERS: 800/297-9150 in the U.S. 703/871-3025 outside of the U.S. CONTACT: Digital Island Irwin Greenstein, 415/738-4162 irwin@digitalisland.net or Inktomi Julie Keslik, 650/653-3074 jkeslik@inktomi.com or Sun Microsystems Maria Villarino, 650/786-3205 maria.villarino@sun.com or The Weber Group for SRI International Christine Hinton, 650/463-8613 chinton@ca.webergroup.com

To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (24264)	12/7/1999 7:20:00 PM
From: fuzzymath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Thomas, your calm collected attitude is inspiring! I still love the company--I'm just surprised. I'm accustomed to Microsoft trying to dominate the standards boards, and use them to its own advantage. Here Sun is clearly the leader. Is IBM trying to play the Microsoft role here? It sounds like Sun is rejecting "standardization"--though most of us know there really is no such thing. I guess I question the shunning of "political-correctness" on this matter. Then again, why they switched to EMCA from the god-like (for physics people like me) ISO is yet another mystery. Meanwhile, I have to now take SUNW off my "Recommended" list, because I only put 5 stocks there. I think it will track the market for a while, and I expect more from the stocks I specifically recommend. Still love the company's creations, though! Kevin Farnham

To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (24264)	12/8/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Thomas - I agree on the notion of driving standards in the market rather than through a "standards body". Standards that work are a formalization of what everyone is doing anyway, designed to provide better interoperability and maintain coherence. SUNW clearly has enough momentum and mindshare in this space to set the standards. They need to drive hard to establish real products that work. If they do that successfully, the market, and the standards bodies, will follow. If they do not, having a standard for something that no one is actually using will be less than useless.