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To: Amy J who wrote (137395)	6/14/2001 11:54:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy, Re: Laptops are so old-fashioned. And carrying around data is not only old-fashion, but static data is just plain old, outdated and not fast enough. Just give me .NET and a hand-held or a .NET device that's stationed (NOT the data, so unlike a laptop!) and the data follows wherever you go, the team is always connected, and communication is always flowing and organized. Remind me about 3270 terminals :-). BTW, why not push it a bit further by having a iPaq(handheld) with wireless connection using CDMA2000 ? The scenario you described would benefit quite some of the stocks I have :-) gary

To: Amy J who wrote (137395)	6/14/2001 11:55:02 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy - Re: "And the kicker is, more .NET devices in more rooms means more chips. (Too bad SA/XSCALE chips aren't fast enough though!) " Just what are the "proposed" CPU requirements for *.net? Paul

To: Amy J who wrote (137395)	6/14/2001 12:00:53 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy, RE: Innovation takes creativity and vision. .NET is about that, and has absolutely nothing to do with conspiracy theories. I stated that Microsoft's primary focus was maximizing revenue and income. That isn't a conspiracy theory, that's capitalism. That said, I understand the theory behind .NET. The biggest problem I see for it logistically is that Microsoft is behind the curve right now. The .NET push is dependent upon Microsoft getting a much bigger push in the enterprise world, and this probably depends a lot upon working with IA-64. The problem is coming up with a stable Microsoft platform on IA-64, which they're still working on. Linux, however, is already running on IA-64. And Linux is ideally suited for the world that you describe. The operating system almost becomes invisible. What is really interesting to me in all this is that the .NET revenue model is very similar to what Red Hat paints as their revenue model for the future. Indeed, Red Hat has been talking about this model for much longer than Microsoft has made the .NET concept public. Next, note that Ballmer et. al. have recently stepped up their attack on open source in general and Linux in specific as of late. The whole scenario then fits pretty well, at least for me.

To: Amy J who wrote (137395)	6/14/2001 12:27:21 PM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

re Just give me .NET and a hand-held or a .NET device that's stationed (NOT the data, so unlike laptop!) and the data follows wherever you go, the team is always connected, and communication is always flowing and organized. Completely web-based. Completely organized and completely efficient. right. and Java is one of the sacred cows that may go away if the unix server biz turns to WINTEL :-) ?