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To: Rational who wrote (5217)	10/29/1997 6:58:00 PM
From: uu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sankar: > Do you think JAVA will change the earnings for SUNW? I think we may have gone over this many times and to avoid repeating ourselves I just say the following: Java provides the infrastructure for the new computing model. It transforms fat software applications into thin (as well as fat) components that can be run on very cheap thin client machines (such as NC, Digital/Web TVs, etc.). In this environment software becomes server centric rather than its current awful form of being fat client centric! This in conjunction with internet manifests into a larger audience being able to run and to use software applications that could have only be run by more sohpisticated users (such as PC/UNIX/VMS/Apple/etc. users). In addition to that Java is becoming the defacto standard for embedded software (such as in specialized chips used to open your hotel door, or gurage door, or toaster, or SmartCards, etc.). Anyway, In short Java means being able to sell more servers because it introduces a computing model that has a much much larger audience than the existing Wintel computing architecturel. And If selling more servers and NCs mean more earnings for SUNW then, in my humble opinion, the answer is an absolute Yes to your question! Regards, Addi Jamshidi

To: Rational who wrote (5217)	10/29/1997 11:59:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sankar - Java was announced less than 900 days ago - and in this short period has caught the attention and imagination of the ENTIRE programming community - so much so that MICROSOFT wants to kill it - that is not faint praise!! When I was in college we were learning Unix but almost all the production systems were mainframes and DEC VAX's. Not long after the corporate world adopted Unix though mainframes and mini's did not dissapear. Unix still cannot do the most intensive of computing tasks - so it makes me laugh that some Microidiots are predicitingthat NT will replace everything. Now a new generation is learning Java and that wave will supplant the existing Java momentum among independant and corporate developers.