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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8121)	5/22/2000 4:56:00 PM
From: dreydoc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9068

Mike - agreed. See if you find this news item from today as interesting as I did in light of this very topic... Regards dailynews.yahoo.com >> Monday May 22 07:30 AM EDT Jini's Disappearing Act By Deborah Gage, Sm@rt Reseller After early applause, Sun's latest software effort loses its magic. Like many circus sideshows, Sun Microsystems' Jini has not lived up to its early hype. When Sun unveiled Jini nearly two years ago, the company promised that Jini-enabled devices would plug seamlessly into a network, find each other, and use each other's services. In ringmaster and Sun co-founder Bill Joy's grand vision, digital cameras would be able to plug into home networks and instantly tell a printer to print pictures. No PC would be required. Now, extend that example to include millions of Jini-enabled devices--hand-held organizers, Web phones, pocket PCs, etc.--and Joy's vision becomes a blueprint for Internet software dominance. The idea was so hot that Hewlett-Packard quickly replicated Sun's digital camera demo to tout its Chai Java clone. Microsoft weighed in with Universal Plug and Play, a technology that promised to supply some of Jini's capabilities using XML instead of Java. In all, some 30 vendors pledged their support for Jini and the long list of promises that went with it. Disappointing Show Nearly two years later, very little of Jini's original promise has materialized, the market is fragmenting, and the future of this technology is looking far less certain. Sun's Joy has one explanation for all of the missing products. At a Silicon Valley conference this month, he blamed Jini's lack of momentum on telco deregulation, which he says has inhibited the establishment of a standard, persistent network. Citing six competing standards for digital wireless networks, he complained that "too much competition" has stalled an "underpinning for wireless devices." Joy added that the existing devices are poorly designed and said he plans to create devices that are "beautiful and pleasing to use." ...>>