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To: pmcw who wrote (31183)	4/21/2000 12:39:00 PM
From: David Kelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Are you the same pmcw as the one at Raging Bull? david

To: pmcw who wrote (31183)	4/21/2000 1:04:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I think you have completely misunderstood JINI; it has no reliance on, and little to do with, power line carrier systems.

To: pmcw who wrote (31183)	4/21/2000 3:17:00 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

If I am in SUNW's PR department this what I will do. Or All SUNW longs here and MSFT haters can do a favour in contacting SUNW's IR department to do something along this line. This suggestion is based on the recent deliberate security hole planted by Microsoft in its product to gain backdoor access to web sites. Microsoft Admits Code in Software By MICHAEL J. MARTINEZ, AP Business Writer SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) today said that a security flaw in its Internet software, reportedly thought to have been deliberately placed there by company engineers, was simply the result of old software code. Scott Culp, a manager for Microsoft's security response team, said the company discovered that the 5-year-old piece of code inadvertently gave certain users access to multiple Web site pages housed on the same server computer. However, Culp denied reports that the hole was deliberately placed there by Microsoft employees. Culp told The Associated Press that the only deliberate act by Microsoft engineers was substituting certain file names with the phrase, ``Netscape engineers are weenies!' - a reference to Microsoft's arch-rival for Internet software. Source dailynews.yahoo.com Here are my suggestions: 1) SUNW should make public aware of this by taking ad spots in all major news media and claim that they cannot trust MSFT to have trusted system even if they can build reliable system. 2) They should also raise a suspecious flag about MSFT may have gained access to web sites using this planted security hole to gain competitive information. 3) Raise the same fear by contacting foreign companies and government agencies that use MSFT servers. This is a segment where SUNW can sell more servers and kill MSFT's growth. 4) Last not the least, ask their legal team to contact and help other lawyers to go after Microsoft to sue and recover potential damages that might have occured. Here you need at least one proof that MSFT logged into some competitors web site. Of course they could have completely whiped their trace. When enemy is down that is the time to finish him off. -Nat PS:Neither long on MSFT nor SUNW. I am not a lawyer.

To: pmcw who wrote (31183)	4/21/2000 4:54:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Hi PMCW - I posted this on the Raging Bull SUNW thread in response to a general question about JINI. For the Thread: It's fun to speculate about future products and innovative uses of new technology. I have experimented with specific X-10 applications and it really works quite well. Once integrated into the Internet, a much more powerful set of features become available for "interactive service" companies. If SUNW's long term plan is to provide the "intelligent" server between the home and the network, then many new consumer services could be provided that will not only generate new hardware sales for SUNW but perhaps many sources of new revenue streams for the company through "value added services". I can vision a lot of very neat new applications and services through these home enabled JINI devises. Also, there are a lot of potential business applications such at (1) real time inventory monitoring for vending machines, (2) daily fuel tank level monitoring for gas stations, or even (3) real-time temperature controls for business and manufacturing facilities. ELON is a company that now provides both home and business network software that will control devises (even JINI devises) in LAN or WAN network environments. I expect many more to appear in the future. Of course, SUNW will provide the engine (i.e. the server) that drives these new services. EKS ============================================================ "...Will JINI work using the X-10 technology (open source) that uses the AC phase shifts to transmit & receive data bits to devises plugged into the present home wiring lines? From what I understand is that these devises must contain an eprom and an efficient processor that already contains the base JINI code. Presently the X-10 interface is limited to the number of data bits that can be transmitted and received per AC cycle. However, the technology seems to work fine for controlling switches (ie on off timers or through remote sensors), updating the server with devise data (limited to small compressed data packets), and updating devise source code if kept to small packet sizes. As you pointed out, wireless systems solve a lot of the problems in bandwidth constraints but also pose a large set of new problems with using such an interface. IMO, it will be up to the devise manufacters to establish set standards that work with either type of LAN. I see SUNW's opportunity as providing the WAN and/or central office large network servers that could access all the home LAN's to monitor these JINI enabled devises (i.e. refrigerators, heaters, water and gas utility meters, etc.) for upstream customers such as utility companies, appliance manufacters (the GE's and Maytags) and even media companies...." EKS