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To: QwikSand who wrote (32202)	5/22/2000 1:19:00 PM
From: cfimx	Respond to of 64865

>>Name: Bob Powell Location: NW FL Occupation: IT Specialist Well, Duh! Is anybody really surprised by this turn of events? Really? Coffeepots talking to refrigerators, televisions talking to hot tubs, and all the other malarkey we heard from Sun and friends - what a load!<< >>'Sun wants to become the de facto standard, but when push comes to shove they'll knife you to get the deal.' << >>"We've got the platform down to about 3 megs, not counting the TCP/IP stack and so on, but that's a lot to put on a paper clip," conceded Sun engineer John Wetherill at a Jini seminar this month. "Most legacy devices have yet to be built, so there's a huge class of devices that will never support Jini." << >>Meanwhile, Microsoft has watched and learned. The company formed a Universal Plug and Play Forum with partners, then a UPnP Steering Committee, and last December quietly combined the Forum with Intel's Home API Working Group. The Forum will meet in mid-June to discuss building "low-cost UPnP devices" and defining the XML schemas that dictate how those devices are positioned. Microsoft lead product manager Greg Sullivan points out that Microsoft charges no licensing fees and that all technologies involved in UPnP are in Internet standards bodies. He acknowledges that the first UPnP device is likely to be a PC loaded with Windows Millennium, due late this year<<