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To: Steve Lee who wrote (40273)	1/11/2001 9:25:51 AM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

steve, i've been hanging out here longer than you, and one thing u'll discover is that "if it aint in a suncom press release, it DON"T exist." The truth of the matter is that if it IS in a suncom press release, it's liable to NEVER exist. <G>

To: Steve Lee who wrote (40273)	1/11/2001 1:03:56 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The question shows you're a nice young fella. Trust me: I was in the computer business longer than you've been in it (and possibly around as long as you've been alive). When a consortium of companies gets together and announces that they're going to do something, it's 100% BS (ok, maybe 99.5%). When a single company announces they're going to do something, the probability of the announcement being pure BS drops to around 75%. Don't tell me you don't know that. One of the crummiest things about the computer business, and the biggest reason I'm DELIGHTED to be out of it after having done my time, is that it lives on hype, lies and lawyers more than almost any other business except Hollywood and Washington...it's sort of in third place. (Note: the financial services business relies on actual statutory crime, and tries to keep hype to a minimum). It's a shame that in the computer business, somewhere at the center of all that, buried under the layers of lies, hype and empty suites, there's a core of genuinely admirable creative engineering talent. This doesn't sound like the computer business you know? But contrary to twister's reply, I don't believe the majority of Sun's press releases either. Microsoft is sort of an excecption. They conduct their affairs more like some hell-spawned combination of the financial and the computer industries in that they lie, cheat AND steal. Sun is just a computer company, which means they just lie. I never believed Jini. I'm starting to doubt UltraSparc III.<g> --QS