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To: David R who wrote (7265)	11/11/1997 12:39:00 AM
From: synchro	Respond to of 10836

Btw, there's a little real estate boom going down here in our own Austin. It seems some (actually lots) Silicon Valley transplants brought their Californian house-buying habits with them. My friends are selling their houses and moving to the small cities in the outskirts like Lockhart, Texas. The Californians are COMING!

To: David R who wrote (7265)	11/11/1997 1:55:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 10836

I have no doubt whatsoever that Visual Basic and Windows monster will collapse under its own weight with Java kicking the legs out from under it. Nobody should underestimate the importance of NOISE (Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun, Ed's Brake and Muffler) ================================================================ From PC WEEK: In what could represent a computing shift of major proportions, Lotus Development Corporation (read: IBM) last week formally introduced its new Java-based productivity applets, along with broad industry support. eSuite, due in the first quarter of 1998, provides the functions of common business applications without the need for Windows. eSuite WorkPlace provides a desktop environment for Web browsing; terminal emulation; and accessing the suite's business components, which comprise a word processor, and E-mail application, a spreadsheet, a calendar, a chart application a presentation graphics appplication and an address book. [priced at $49 per suite]. A second offereing, eSuite DevePack, provides tools for developers to create Java-based applications, Lotus oficials said at a press conference here. [priced at $1,495 per suite.] ================================================================= Look, if you are running a hotel or some other business you are not going to want Wintel boat-anchors of every conceivable configuration strewn across the premises. Microsoft has blown it completely with their assembly-language-like COM and DCOM and this time there is real competition. Microsoft will be jumping on the Java bandwagon with both feet and if that happens, I still call it a win for Java.