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To: A. Reader who wrote (60)	11/26/1997 12:42:00 PM
From: Mark Finger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116

Can you post at least a summary, because that link does not work for me. I would like to respond, but I am not sure of the basis of your post. I suspose that there were some sales figures and expectations in the article, and I would like to see them first. Mark

To: A. Reader who wrote (60)	11/30/1997 12:29:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 116

All I can say to that patently ridiculous article was e-mailed to the author: I have to say that the only thing more ridiculous than the prediction that the NC would take over in 1997 is declaring it dead for having not done so. Perhaps you could put your pundit badge down for a minute and review the history of low-tech operating environments like DOS and Windows and higher-tech systems like NT. It's astonishing that anybody with anything approaching common sense would think that the NC was going to take off without any software. Software takes time. I can tell you with total confidence that Microsoft's COM architecture is nothing but the same, decade old morass they used to call OLE with ten coats of paint and every conceivable add-on apparatus just to make it work. It's poorly designed and poorly implemented and it's a collosal dead end. The NC explosion will be directly proportional to the availability of software such as IBM's $49 eSuite and $1500 developer's pack. From then on, you will use scalable applications designed and implemented using modern, object-oriented techniques -- not Microsoft home-brewed, retrofit hairball machinery.