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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cfimx who wrote (24542)	12/10/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: tiquer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

The operating system, what ever it is, will be in the background. All that is needed for most is the web browser... How about a model for the young kids to start (simple games, web based chat, web based homework help and storage of school work which can be brought up back at school too). Then one for the kitchen counter top (web based recipes, email, streaming clips of the latest news and gossip)... and with all the success of those two it seems that the old beast of a nightmare system windows (which requires years of experience to take advantage of) will go out the window... With the wash water... Most peoples important file are just as secure or more so being maintained by their bank, brokerage, insurance company, place of work..and now comes online accounting, spread sheets, word processing, games, etc... Its all falling in place... The network is the computer... TWIT.. haven't you figured out that computing will be web based???? How is that short doing?? It's been several weeks now since you first took a short position in Sun... Did you hold some money back for the holidays?? If you are average they say you need $900.00 for gifts this holiday season... do you need us to throw some $$$ in the pot for you??? Happy Holidays TWIT... Roger

To: cfimx who wrote (24542)	12/10/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

one SERIOUS question: ... where is this groundswell of demand for linux on the desktop going to come from your qwikness? 1) will it be corporate users , who i bet are just chomping at the bit to make wholesale changes to their environments. 2) consumers, who will chuck all the quicken and games and aol for a chance to muck around with linux. if it aint THEM qwik, who is it? I believe it will be corporate users first, who may not want to make wholesale changes, but a) Are always being prompted to make a lot of changes by M$FT anyway b) Will have to make changes as applications move to the web and the world changes under them, and c) develop new systems continually. Also small business users, a subset of corporate users, will be heavy Linux adopters. They'll buy from VAR's, won't develop their own software, and they'll get more reliable and less expensive systems for their businesses. But eventually the consumers will be there too. Let's revisit this discussion in a year, and see where Linux stands relative to W2K. One of us is going to be surprised. --QS