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To: cfimx who wrote (27194)	2/4/2000 12:57:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Now, now. You know that's never been the scenario. Java terminals were supposed to start in vertical niches & replicated sites, spread to corporate desktops that don't need general purpose PC's, and then only much later move into homes, along with bandwidth. It looks like the early incursions into homes are being made by things like the email appliance that Walter Mossberg wrote about in a recent WSJ, which appeals primarily to old people and technophobes and (yes) is not a Java device. Linux and Transmeta seem to pose a competitive threat to the Java station model. Sun went through a fantasy phase where they tried valiantly to pretend Javastations could magically replace PC's on the desktops all-of-a-sudden, but that was just their normal "aggressiveness", and nobody believed it. I admit it: SunRays have not proved themselves, and frankly that p*sses me off a little after all that noise. --QS