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To: Paul Engel who wrote (52616)	4/9/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Jay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re "the rate of Java development has barely BEGUN!" And its going to die before it begins if MSFT has its way and gets ActiveX going. That's why I feel that Java on the Netscape browser is of strategic importance to Intel. Someone has to provide the broad shoulders on which Netscape can stand to thwart BillG. BillG will try to make sure that anything Intel does is sufficiently "open" (read: cloneable) to avoid giving Intel too much power. Intel should counterattack to make sure BillG doesn't end up ruling the world. Can BillG be stopped? IMHO it is probably too late...

To: Paul Engel who wrote (52616)	4/10/1998 8:28:00 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul and Richard, re: definition of "Killer app" You've listed a number of applications that certainly benefit from increased processing power, and I'm sure there are many more. But I was under the impression "Killer app" referred to applications that would find wide usage in the Home, SOHO and business markets. An app that would create large numbers of new users and upgrades to existing PC's. I put the introduction of spreadsheets, word processors and web browsers in that category. It's hard for me to believe the examples you listed would create a large number of new owners in the home market, or cause current owners to upgrade. (Or even the 90% of business PC's devoted to word processing, spreadsheets and data base management). As for improving the internet experience, most corporate executives are looking for improvements in bandwidth and interconnect technology to accomplish this, not faster PC's. Gates is a proponent of this. (For example cable modems and XDSL). OT, I find it interesting that IBM is segmenting the low-end PC between Home and Business markets. Looks like they're using AMD for the home and P/MMX for business. (They appear not to be going with Celeron). Since P/MMX was supposed to phase out this quarter, I wonder what this means? Link to article mentioning IBMs plans for the low end. news.com

To: Paul Engel who wrote (52616)	4/10/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: "These Killer Apps are all around - perhaps you circulate in a low tech environment." Couple more: Pro Engineer, CADkey, Dracula, HDL, VHDL, Visual Architect, BONeS. Design Compiler (DC Expert, DC Expert Plus), Design Analyzer, ECO Compiler, Floorplan Manager, FPGA Compiler, HDL Compiler, Power Compiler The last bunch were taken from Synopsys' web site. Tony p.s. It used to take a Sun or SGI workstation to run quite a few, if not all of the above. Now, at work, whatever we run is on Pentium Pro, or Pentium II. The Sun is going down! Tony