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To: uu who wrote (8344)	3/14/1998 10:28:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 64865

...leveraging Windows as the best possible Java environment Sun would have helped Microsoft's dominance dramatically... False! This is precisely where I think Sun has gone wrong and they need to stop thinking this way, fast. Ensuring Java applications run as efficiently as native applications on Windows would not undermine Sun's own NC efforts in the long term and probably not in the short term either. Once a critical mass of software has been developed for Java that software will open the floodgates to alternative machines. Yes, I know where you're going with the intelligent device topic but the fact remains the fat client will continue to dominate for years to come because they have fat screens and fat keyboards with skinny price tags. So punting on business appliances for the desktop is a really bad strategy. Moreover, why leave the door open for Windows CE on one end and Windows NT on the other? It's not the case that Sun has the intelligent device and the server markets wrapped up with Java yet and giving up on the desktop leaves that double door ajar.