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To: Kashish King who wrote (8626)	3/27/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Jave in smart cards, interesting techweb.com Java could change that, Wentker believes, because it would let vendors easily write applications to run on a single card. It would separate the operating system and the applications, allow a core set of tools and enable a coherent security model. Visa is so confident that Java will help smart cards take off, he said, that it expects to issue 300 million of them by 2002. Sun is also jumping on the bandwagon, with executives spending much of their time at the JavaOne developers conference pushing smart card technology. In his keynote speech on Tuesday, Sun CEO Scott McNealy showed of his Enigma smart card, with which he can log onto any computer at Sun and get to his own user desktop. Haim