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To: John Mireley who wrote (42400)	3/26/2001 9:46:19 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

In a few years - 4 or 5 maybe - that class of client will be pervasive enough to allow an end to end architecture with no PCs. But the battle for the architecture at the edge, and the shape of the next generation internet, is being fought now, not in 5 years. The total of ALL palm, PDA, set top, and other "non-PC" clients is less than 8% of all clients in use. Cell phones have numbers, but after the disappointing performance and acceptance of WAP and other phone internet clients, no one takes them seriously as a significant client - there again, the next generation of those devices will be more powerful but not in time to affect the dynamics of the development of the infrastructure being defined today. So while I agree with your premise long term, it has little to do with what Sun should be doing in 2001 and 2002.