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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (37160)	1/27/2000 1:36:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

BK: Thanks for the Davos summary. MSFT is way ahead in the xML business by a great deal. This is definitely a threat to SUNW's java and explains the shrill attack of McNealy in a forumthat is supposed to be collegial. To include the following in an international address is boorish at best: Sun's Response Not surprisingly, Sun Microsystem's CEO, Scott McNealy, had plenty to say in response. He started his speech with a sarcastic request for any good new monopolist jokes, listed his "Top Ten" ways you could tell that Microsoft owns 20% of Las Vegas (Monopoly is now the biggest game in town...Every fourth pull you have to reboot the slot machine, etc...). He then attacked the complexity of the Windows 2000 operating system. "Everyone is worrying about the Y2K bug. We should be worrying about W2K (Windows 2000), which is going to cause a lot more problems," McNealy asserted. McNealy favors the service business model for future computer developments, similar to utility companies. "Information ought to be a utility, as easy to operate as water or power. No one cares about the operating system behind a mobile phone; they just expect it to work." In a post-speech press conference, he said that Microsoft was unrepentant and incorrigible, and should be either broken up into smaller companies or forced to abide by stringent rules. Among these would be a prohibition against investing profits gained from monopolistic business practices in other industries. JFD