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To: Kashish King who wrote (1958)	11/27/1997 11:16:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3014

If its a battle of web sites, I got a fair idea of Applix TM1 from there, but I'm not a potential customer anyway, if interested I would get a more hands-on demonstration. OTOH on the lotus.com site I got a picture of a TV commercial with some slogans, I'm sure more GIF overload if I'd have ventured further. Anyway my point was, they aren't in head-to-head competition I don't see the relevance. Until the first million customers have switched from Office to eSuite it won't be the MS-killer it may be intended to, either. IBM is certainly not the gorilla it used to be, they have a fair portion of any market but nothing to sound alarms about. Applix is a bit more specialized and high-peformance than a desktop spreadsheet. If Lotus has more content in Java is fine, Lotus is a big company, maybe IBM can afford to take the risk that brought Corel to its knees. The medium isn't as important as the content. If you figured Applix to take the software world by storm, you'll surely be disappointed. It does pretty good as a niche, maybe, and from that might grow. Greg

To: Kashish King who wrote (1958)	11/28/1997 7:21:00 AM
From: carl griffith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3014

... eSuite will have a 'deafening silence' of an impact on the NC market, I would estimate. Sure, they (Big Blue) are so Java-oriented/committed; their motives, like Oracle's/Sun's are based on a very dodgy principle - ie, anti-Gates - none of that triumvirate 'believe' in Java/NC they just wish to seek revenge on Gates/Microsoft which is NOT a basis for any business-plan, let alone a 'new' technology ... IBM are still very, very bitter re: being stitched-up by a young kid called Bill, all those years ago, re: DOS/Windows licensing - hence their ongoing aborted attempts to gain revenge - first OS/2 (ho!), then 'Warp' (ho-ho!!) now, ho-ho-ho, Java/eSuite/NC and being pals with their erstwhile foes Sun/Oracle - when this gang falls out (as it surely will in '98) eSuite/et al will join the list of failed attempts in this million-dollar bun-fight. Farcical - glad I have no stock interests in any of those three; bitterness, incompetence and crazed egos should not be in business. They should all grow up and try and run their core business' - they could learn a lot from Microsoft, should they care to ... End of rant.