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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (18778)	4/28/1998 4:28:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Jeez Norm, that's all well and good if people bought PCs to ONLY browse the internet. There is a market for internet-only devices though. It's pretty small now, but maybe it grows further--I don't know. But of course, the competition here would be WebTV, set-top boxes, Oracle's Network Computers for home, Sun's Dibas, and a thousand other devices. Most of these are designed to be extremely easy to use and such. And oh yeah, but with full-blown and fully-functional PCs at around $800 right now, looks like that entire market is getting squeezed. >As more and more apps are written in Java and as more apps are server-based over the Internet, Linux becomes more viable. Oh, so you're talking 3-5 years from now. Why didn't you say so to begin with?!?!?