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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (7542)	12/14/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

<< "People used to feel that the safest place to keep money was under a mattress," says Greg Papadopoulos, chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems. Eventually, though, safeguards were put in place, standard established, and the public decided that their money was safer in the bank than in the bedroom. >> True, but that doesn't mean I don't want any money with me now. Also, data is duplicable unlike money. We'd probably all carry big wads if, in the case of loss or theft, we could just contact a money repository and reload our wallets. My view is that data storage will be so cheap that people will have huge amounts of their own data with large quantities of important data (family videos etc,) mirrored off site. I don't see one vs the other and find the concept of a home server more intuitively feasible than than a remote server managing all household needs. Last, until my cell phone transmits data reliably, you won't see me lining up to receive all my data through the air. -Z