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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (7007)	1/18/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: LKO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I hope it is a real product and not hype. I reject "car of the future" auto companies for that reason. :-) But I like this speculation the best... It could be a major telecom or cellular provider (Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, etc.). I think some of them are already using Java. Lucent has its own Inferno environment which is claimed to be better than Java...but for better or worse...Java has the mindshare now. Last year they signed some agreement with Sun to combine it with Java though I have no clue what that means in terms of products. Nokia 9000 (?) phone+PDA uses Geoworks embedded OS which can be spiced up with Java. Motorala can have products along the same lines. Sun acquired Diba last year but there has been no news what they have been doing with their products. Before acquisition their diba.com site features "smart phone" type products that could use Java. In France, they have a phone based info system Minitel. I was there in August and I heard some local grapevine how France missed inventing the Internet revolution because they already had something better for 20years. :-) France Telecom had announced a few years ago ambitous plans to become a mega ISP and they will probably convert Minitel to IP based terminals and that type of technology (in France or elsewhere) could be coming using Java/Diba technology. People keep speculating what that "single information appliance" into people's home will be ...webtv box, set-top TCI box, or a multimedia PC, minitel-type-smart-phone. They also speculate about "single information pipe technology" there will be (broadband cable, DSL, etc). My speculation is that all of the above will continue to evolve and all are candidates for becoming Java based thin-clients.