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To: Robert Boylin who wrote (9278)	3/12/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213173

Bob Rhapsody was again absent from AAPL's JAVA deal with MSFT News releases limit it to MacOS and MRJ . Appears AAPL's Web Objects (produces C & JAVA) and Rhapsody are separate issues and not in the Aug 97 agreement with MSFT . Keeping Rhapsody separate may provide AAPL leverage to be both a Mac proprietary company and a "open" OS company . SUN objected to the Mac OS using MSFT's JAVA technology : " The development deal is another log on the growing fire between Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) and Microsoft. Sun Microsystems developed Java to be a standard programming language for all platforms, where UNIX had many different versions that weren't compatible with each other. " zdnet.com Seems like SUN should be phoning Senor Jobs as IBM is now (3/17/98) treating him royally - any thoughts ? Regards, Jim K.