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To: Paul Corbett who wrote (8159)	12/20/1997 3:43:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 10836

The NC is a reconfigured PC which is an artifact of the distributed software architecture around which Java and CORBA are built. The PC makes an excellent NC and as Java catches fire in the enterprise you will see large corporations move toward NC-like systems. What's truly comical are the hardware pundits who are out there declaring the NC dead because they swallowed the hype in 1996 and they look like the fools they are in 1997. Fortunately, Java is continuing to move forward at break-neck speed. I'm certain that 1988 will be a huge year for Java and the NC as a result of that. We should never expect any technology to live up to its hype but we should always expect new technology to be accompanied by hype. Java is living up to the hype like nothing before it.

To: Paul Corbett who wrote (8159)	12/20/1997 4:08:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

According to PC week the Java NC is dead before it is born.. It is amazing to me no one has been able to get to market with one of these things in a useful format yet. The longer it takes, the more likely MSFT is to claim Java as its own. I can't, for the life of me, see why anyone would want one -- at least not in a business setting (talk about a statement that could come back to haunt). The after-tax price differential of owning a crippled box vs. a PC is going to be $100 or something. Who's going to do it? Someone really needs to figure out something you can do with Java that you can't do with a PC running Windows. THEN, you'll have a winner. Until then, Java has no advantage over traditional systems, except for making Java rings and wristwatches.