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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (18670)	4/21/1998 6:32:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>More likely it will continue to license from 3rd parties, with more non-MSFT vendors in the fray. Look for them licensing some sort of lightweight, realtime OS on which to run Java for non-PC computing hardware such as the embedded market, PDAs, set-top boxes, and NCs.<<< In fact I think that's been announced (Intel buying into Java), as it has for Sony, and others. However, to return to the current off-topic, that doesn't help MSFTs case, because all that so far has nothing to do with the desktop market, though Java may next be a monopoly in the computerized device market. That's the OS antitrust case for 2005, potentially: Java and embedded devices. It will be interesting to see Sun try to stay away from the edge MSFT went over. Cheers, Chaz