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To: BxK who wrote (17639)	12/21/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

You mentioned XML. A bit OT: What do you think of BITS, if you have an opinion? Didn't do so well today, but has traded as high as 11 over the past couple of weeks. I'm considering taking a position. TIA M

To: BxK who wrote (17639)	12/21/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Regis McConnell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

A speculation as to whom Noam was referring to at the annual meeting, as advising MRV, & was one of the original founders of Sun. Most likely the reference is to Bill Joy, Sun's Chief Technology Officer. He's responsible for "spearheading its open systems philosophy", "driven the initial business and technical strategy for Java, co-designed the picoJava and ultraJava processor architectures", & " most recent work is on the Jini distributed computing technology for networking computer devices using Java". "In 1997, Joy was appointed by President Clinton as Co-Chairman of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is providing guidance and advice on all areas of high-performance computing, communications and information technologies to accelerate development and adoption of information technologies that will be vital for American prosperity in the twenty-first century. The report of the committee is available at hpcc.gov. "His current research is into new uses of distributed computing enabled using Java and Jini, new methods of human-computer interaction, new microprocessor and system architectures, and the uses in computing of scientific advances in areas such as complex adaptive systems, quantum computing, and the cognitive sciences." conferences.oreilly.com An interview w/Bill Joy. wired.com Regis

To: BxK who wrote (17639)	12/21/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 42804

<< Companies such as IBM, Compaq, 3Com and Novell have already signed up with Hyporium. >> It is mildly disturbing that this group of companies does not really reflect a total embracing of this concept by a broad spectrum of US technology companies. I would really like to see about 5 or 10 more big names sign up with Hyporium in order to give it the necessary critical mass and help establish it as a defacto standard. Any chance that others have and it simply has not been announced? BP