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Technology Stocks : Will SUNW bring down MSFT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (831)	11/10/1997 11:47:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 878

Dan, we are pretty-much in agreement. I don't think that Java will fail, but don't think that it will displace traditional operating systems, either. Same with NCs - they will enjoy some success, perhaps considerable, but won't displace the traditional PC. As to the OS issue, you post proves my point. Sure, IBM is planning a "future" Java OS. Wake me up when they are done, OK?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (831)	11/11/1997 8:25:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 878

Analyst sees online economy boosted by Java, not the Web www2.computerworld.com Sheesh, this in computerworld, home of professional Microsuckup Fred Moody and professional Java basher Dave Coursey. The U.S. Internet economy may be worth $350 billion by 2000, but the World Wide Web is dead, according to industry pundit George Colony. The Web will be done in by its technological limitations, he said, because it is flat-file, nonimmersive and difficult to personalize. The president of Forrester Research, Inc. offered his opinions before a group of investors seeking technology opportunities at the Venture Market East conference in Cambridge, Mass., today. "The Web is just a warm-up exercise, not even the pregame scrimmage," Colony said. Colony described Internet computing as a connected relationship between businesses and customers, in which businesses send to customers software modules that are loaded on their PCs and used to transact business over the Internet. This computing model, which he said will prevail for the next five or 10 years, is based on Java. OK, cool so far. But now the really scary part: *"In the future, we will all be Microsoft," Colony said.* Stop the world, I want to get off! Cheers, Dan.