To: Uncle Frank who wrote (38934 ) 2/5/2001 2:47:38 PM From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh Respond to In McNealy's recent keynote at the iPlanet conference he was talking in a similar vein*. I don't know that I would say that this was directly tied conceptually to the discussion here, but it certainly isn't far from it ... in fact I considered posting some of that discussion here under the category of explaining SUNWs rather special position relative to other seemingly comparable vendors, i.e., a lot of it is attitude and approach, not just the product. He has a rather sweeping vision of SUNWs future role in enabling net-based interaction and commerce, including an increasingly strong software position. One of his key words in this is "webtone", an analogy to dialtone -- picking up the phone and hearing dialtone reflects a huge and complex infrastructure which has been made easily accessible to the user. He wants SUNW to be the source for companies providing webtone. A couple of other bits, other than the predictable slam on MSFT, included:under -hyped.
