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To: Michael L. Voorhees who wrote (43775)	4/28/2000 2:09:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Michael - perhaps you could fill me in with some of the product history of SUNW's network architecture and software or hardware, and the revenue that generated, since I can not seem to see that SUNW made much money at that, seems like they make their money on servers and workstations which do general computing and database work. Perhaps you can also give me the facts around the raging success of NFS, and all the money that made. Or maybe "the network is the computer" was marketing bull from the get-go. SUNW shareholder since 1987...

To: Michael L. Voorhees who wrote (43775)	4/28/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: SC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The problem with the whole concept of the "network is the computer" is that vast numbers of us don't have the "sufficiently high bandwidth" to make the network experience indistinguishable from the computer experience. I also don't want to rent applications from sunw or msft or anyone else. Lastly, no matter what system you care to discuss, any computer connected to a network has a security problem, especially if you are storing your data on a remote storage system that is not physically in your possession. Simply put, that idea was run up the flagpole and didn't get any salutes. Steve