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To: Peter Green who wrote (5208)	10/29/1997 3:15:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 64865

A remarkable Sun project/venture: biz.yahoo.com An excerpt: "Sun began working with Fibre Channel standards in 1989 and in 1993 co-founded the Fibre Channel Systems Initiative (FCSI) in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Sun began shipping its first-generation Fibre-Channel product, the SPARCstorage Array, in 1994 and since that time has shipped more than 2000 TB of Fibre Channel storage while garnering support from many industry-leading vendors. As other storage vendors aspire to bring their first generation Fibre Channel products to market, Sun has now made available its next generation product, putting Sun a full generation ahead of other storage vendors."

To: Peter Green who wrote (5208)	10/29/1997 3:16:00 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Respond to of 64865

To all Sun worshippers: I've programmed in several languages and will be doing a class in Java in the Spring. If you are interested, I'll let you know how it compares. In fact, even if you're not interested, I'll post anyway.

To: Peter Green who wrote (5208)	10/29/1997 3:57:00 PM
From: uu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Peter: > The point I was making in my previous mail is that SunSoft is in > the Dev Tools business (& very successfully so). JavaSoft supplies > the technology to SunSoft, Borland, Symantec etc. Absolutely. SunSoft is in the Dev Tools business. However, they, in my opinion, are expert in providing the raw technology (e.g. Java) rather than building tools that provide that raw technology to the mass consumers (namely the developers) to use for building applications. There are 3 levels of products here: 1. the raw technology (e.g. Java, the lanuage, the virtual machine, etc.), 2. The tools that exposes that raw technology to the end users (e.g. Java WorkShop, J++, etc.), and 3. Applications that are based on the raw technology and are build using the tools that makes it easy for developers to use that raw technology to build real life applications (e.g. an Order Entry system based totally on Java). In my humble opinion, SunSoft is only concnetrated (and it is of course very smart too) on providing the raw technology while leaving others to provide the tools and applications that exposes that raw technology to the end users . As for the World War II, my apology, yes you are correct it was (as you state) Churchill who skillfully managed & built the 'Special Relationship'. It was this that allowed for the anti Axis coalition including Russia to defeat Germany. So similarly I think of Sun (acting as Churchil !) skillfyly is building 'special relatioships" with companies such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Borland, Symantec, etc. and a vast number of startups and small companies, to even its rivals IBM, and HP in order to push for its raw technology and force Microsoft to go along with it too! Regards, Addi Jamshidi