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To: derek cao who wrote (5360)	2/5/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: syborg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

You can NOT live on investment seed money forever. I think you will find that a large number of companies are investing on Java development. Development that includes not only client side applets, but also servlets, and plain old installed applications on the desktop. Additionally, there is a huge emerging market for consumer and hand held computing devices. Java is poised to capture a great deal of this business mind share via licensing agreements like that with Motorola. The companies in the database market recognize this and are developing ultra-small footprint data storage devices that will tap into this market. Good news for all us investors. If you live in the bay area and continue to have doubts about Java... Head on down to the Moscone center 2/24-27 for the worldwide developers conference. There were over 8,000 developers there last year, so I am sure you will find a wide variety of opinions. If you manage to find me I can introduce you to a couple VPs from Fortune 500 companies that are spending money on vendors that can provide Java oriented solutions and applications. syborg

To: derek cao who wrote (5360)	2/5/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Kevin Yang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

>3 years is awful long time in the computer industry. That's not true. Java is barely 3 years old. It was only 1 or 2 years ago that people started to realized Java's potential. Decisions to go Java were probably made during that time frame, or even later. Motorola just recently signed a huge contract with Sun to adopt Java. Something must be wrong with Motorola to go Java this 'late' in the game. Or something must be right about Java. 1 or 2 years is just about right to churn out a piece of new software. I agreed with the prediction that 98-99 will be the period when you see an explosion of Java applications. Kev