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To: High-Tech East who wrote (24483)	12/9/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

This piece was not fair or accurate. Sun has done a very credible job of maintaining Java standards. Sun in fact, has made Java2 free and availed the source. To compare that to M$ Windows isn't honest, accurate or informed. One thing for sure. The illegal M$ monopoly very much changed the way the Java story has evolved. Having said that, maybe Thomas and others in our SI SUNW software geek sub-committee can head over to Rick Ross' Javalobby site and provide us a more informed impression of what *is going on. My impression is Javalobby is spinning dizzy from all the changes that are taking place on the Java landscape. It looks to me like Forte (the Forte and Netbeans acquisition) is changing things in a big way, and the community doesn't quite know what to think. -JCJ

To: High-Tech East who wrote (24483)	12/9/1999 10:28:00 PM
From: Mike Milde	Respond to of 64865

After Microsoft showed us that they were intent on fragmenting Java and making it platform dependent, you can't blame Sun for wanting to keep control of Java's future to themselves. If it's an ISO standard then Microsoft will be able to influence it's direction, and it's apparent what Microsoft wants to do. Mike

To: High-Tech East who wrote (24483)	12/9/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: cfimx	Respond to of 64865

wow. this guy hits hard. I like how he finishes up: "Sun has a right to do as it likes with Java. But it's worth remembering the promise of liberation that was once attached to Java. That promise turned out not to be worth very much. In my software-industry dictionary, I'm going to file Sun's use of the term "openness" next to Microsoft's version of "innovation." Both words mean the same things when these guys use them: Absolute power"

To: High-Tech East who wrote (24483)	12/17/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: High-Tech East	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

be still my heart warning: this is totally off-subject - it has almost nothing to do with Sun Microsystems If you object to this post, I apologize, but I do not get this excited very often, and since this is the only SI thread I have participated in in the past 2 1/2 plus years since I became a member, and I have always been only a news provider here (as well as a a smart-ass in twister's case), I thought that some of you would want to read it. (1) Recently, my wife and I reduced our SUNW holdings to about 50% of what they had been, down to 4,000 shares. Not because we do not still believe in SUNW as strongly as ever - we would have sold all of it if that were the case, but because SUNW has been so successful for my wife and I that there was too much money in one place. Our paper profit since we first bought in May, 1997 was up to over $425,000 (all in retirement brokerage accounts). (2) Earlier this year,in March actually, a new friend named Charlie revealed to me that he had a total heart transplant about 12 years ago, but that there was some chance, in the future, that he would need a total artificial heart to replace his transplanted one - a product not then or now available through medical science or anyone else. He then told me about a local company, from Danvers, Massachusetts that is developing a total artificial heart, and thought that they might be ready to go to clinical trials in humans during the year 2000 (next year). Being the curious types, Charlie and I arranged a meeting and tour with the company's CFO. Oh yeah, the company is Abiomed Inc - ABMD on the Nasdaq. After much research and conversation, my wife and I bought 1,000 shares on March 30 at 12 5/8, another 1,000 at about 24 on October 27, and then got real crazy and bought another 3,000 four days ago at about 45 1/2. So we have 5,000 at an average of $37.43. At this point, some of you may be pissed that I am touting this stock on the SUNW thread to help push up the price of ABMD. If you feel that way, I am sorry, but Abiomed's stock does not need the few purchases that might come from members of this thread. I believe, and this is a very personal belief, that between next week, and sometime next year, every adult in the U.S.A. will be very familiar with them ... and for good reasons. please understand that I am not a broker, or a professional analyst or a professional investor and that I believe that Abiomed is an "extremely high risk" investment. I AM NOT, IN ANY WAY SUGGESTING THAT YOU SHOULD BUY IT..... ..... but you might want to read some of the following ..... pbs.org messages.yahoo.com abiomed.com techreview.com Ken Wilson