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To: micromike who wrote (9370)	4/28/1998 9:31:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Hi Mike - It look's like HWP responded to Sunw's announcement... techweb.com Keep your eye on the recent corporatewide agreement SUNW recently signed with Motorola regarding the deal to license and distribute Sunw's full family of Java platform technologies. Sunw's recent acquisition of Chorus Systems shows that it is serious about extending Java into the smaller and more real-time areas of embedded systems. This will allow SUNW to mate their JAVA to an RTOS and making Java and its services easily adaptable to various new RTOS's. Now as to how IBM brings the two together will IMO depend on where IBM plans to go with their RISC chip technology. I believe at one time they were working with Motorola to develop their RISC chip technology. I do not remember if they still hold patents on this technology but IBM continues to cover all bases supporting NT, Unix (Solaris??), JAVA and new RISC chip processors. With Intel's recent purchase of DEC's Alpha chip production facilities (announced last week), I believe IBM will be forced to choose a similar alliance with Motorola or SUNW to secure a RISC product strategy. It is possible it might also include the adoption of a "preferred" OS (Sunw Solaris), a standard RTOS (for embedded system development), and a "hybrid" JAVA class to tie everything together. IBM is being pressured to show the street how they plan to grow their hardware sales as they can only do so much in the service side (20% compounded growth last three years). Their operating costs can not really be slashed any more from current levels. If they can show a full upgrade path from the low end (NT type configurations) to the high end Enterprise system (Solaris OS, SUNW Server and storage sub-systems) combined with an efficient open JVM and RTOS hooks; ....well I believe customers will have the choices they need to solve many of their IT requirements. IBM needs to announce more corporate partnerships to keep Intel and Microsoft in check. EKS