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To: JDN who wrote (25988)	1/9/2000 3:55:00 PM
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JD: I saw Scott on Rukheyser and also watched most of his recorded CES keynote, but turned it off because of boredom (another kind of congestion, I guess). I've written a couple of predictably flippant posts about those talks on this board, but in all seriousness I really don't think Sun has their act together WRT communicating the next steps in this proliferating-device paradigm to laymen and consumers. The real core of the message is relatively momentous, that our lives and especially our childrens' lives are going to be changed in a major way by bandwidth and networking. We all know that's true. But somehow the McNealy version of it these days is coming out looking almost silly, like just a bunch of CES gadgetry, like a geek staggering through the airport juggling cell phones, laptops, pagers with a GPS antenna up his butt. They can do a lot better. I have been unimpressed by McNealy's last two presentations on the subject, and unhappy about it as a shareholder. I hope they concentrate more on this issue this year. His CES top ten list IMHO wasn't even funny. Regards, --QS EDIT: I should add, Sun's place, and Java's and Jini's place in the new paradigm also needs more clarification to the masses who are going to make these devices succeed or fail.