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To: Andrew Ghezzi who wrote (4176)	1/11/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: Urlman	Respond to of 8581

Andrew, congrats on your little milestone with CICI (EOM)

To: Andrew Ghezzi who wrote (4176)	1/11/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: cksla	Respond to of 8581

andrew, urlman, et. al: don't be shocked if intel is announced as the chip supplier but they may not get all the action per TCI: Friday January 9, 8:42 pm Eastern Time TCI sees cable set top box standards soon PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan 9 (Reuters) - A senior executive of leading U.S. cable television company Tele-Communications Inc [Nasdaq:LBTYA - news] said Friday the company and its open cable initiative industry partners have yet to select a microprocessor or operating system for new advanced digital television set-top boxes. ''We have not settled as of today to a specific microprocessor or operating system,'' Bruce Ravenel, president and CEO of TCI.NET and senior vice president of TCI Communicaitons Inc. said in a conference call. ''This is a fast-moving process and those decisions are being made as we speak,'' he told reporters and analysts. ''The time frame is in the immediate future. We can't spend much time dilly-dallying about the future,'' said Ravenel of the decision to select a microprocessor and operating system. He said more than one of each might be chosen. The comments came as TCI announced with Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) that the companies had reached agreement for TCI to use Sun's PersonalJava as standard sofware on its advanced, fully configured digital set top boxes. Ravenel said TCI planned to begin shipping the advanced boxes in early 1999, and that TCI expected to ship 6.5 million to 10 million of the boxes. Some early reports of TCI's pending deal with Sun said it had angered software giant Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news), which is engaged in an often bitter rivalry with Sun over control of new technology platforms as computing becomes more pervasive. Microsoft has been frequently reported to be closing in on a deal of its own with TCI, and has been rumored to even be willing to invest $1 billion of its multibillion dollar cash pile to help debt-ridden TCI roll out digital capabilities. But some analysts said the deal appeared to leave plenty of room for Microsoft to supply its Windows CE operating system, for example, or semiconductor maker Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) to supply the microprocessors. ''We have a relationship with Microsoft and Microsoft may be a supplier of an operating system to work with this device,'' said Ravenel. ''Not every piece of software will be implemented in PersonalJava,'' he added, saying some programs would work just with the processor and system software. ''We've had conversations with Microsoft on an ongoing basis,'' he added. Nevertheless, the Sun-TCI deal will likely irk Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, who was due to present a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Saturday, a day after a speech by Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy, analysts said. ''I'm sure that Bill Gates is not going to be happy about this deal,'' said David Wu, a financial analyst with ABN AMRO Chicago Corp. ''Gates doesn't like anybody (else) to get anything.'' +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++====== "more than one of each" (microprocessor and o/s) may be chosen

To: Andrew Ghezzi who wrote (4176)	1/12/1998 2:23:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8581

TCI is going to be using Windows CE as an OS. Came as a second-day surprise announcement. They will be running Java as an application on top of CE and/or running CE on some boxes and Personal Java on others, and/or running CE or Personal Java on the same box at different times. The press releases were confusing and not very technical... In any case, I think there would have to be a Windows CE port to the PTSC chips if they were to be used. Doesn't seem likely.