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To: The Ox who wrote (9499)	5/4/1998 3:05:00 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Michael, with all due respect, you can't put all your faith in everything you read. Otherwise we'd all be programming in a Taligent environment with OpenDoc as our object metaphor. Good grief, the article itself says 'long-term' project and 'five years from now'. Who would like to bet the game is still the same by then? This industry is littered with the waste from marketechture driven press releases; and the corpses of failed projects driven by co-opitition of major vendors. Perhaps IBM has designs on SUNW? Lets issue a takeover press release and see who follows... Even in the news is all good and can be taken 100% at face value, it delivers nothing over the next few quarters.

To: The Ox who wrote (9499)	5/4/1998 3:11:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

If "the skill level needed to be a decent Unix developer is higher than to be a productive NT developer," and development is being accomplished on both platforms, doesn't it necessarily follow that the better people are developing on Unix? <g> JMHO.

To: The Ox who wrote (9499)	5/4/1998 8:07:00 AM
From: High-Tech East	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Michael. In what issue did you find the Information Week article about IBM and SUNW collaborating on a new UNIX with Java. I just looked through a number of recent issues of Information Week on-line and could not find it. Maybe I overlooked it. Thanks. Ken Wilson

To: The Ox who wrote (9499)	5/4/1998 3:56:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>> IBM And Sun Collaborate On New Unix, Sources Say The reason why such a project can't be made public is that all the Java licensees are going to cry foul if they found that the "platform-neutral" java had an edge if it ran on Unix. It could threaten Sun's role as a PAS submitter. As a shareholder, I'd love Sun to humble it's competitors any way it can while fetching more gains! Cheers, Babu

To: The Ox who wrote (9499)	5/5/1998 12:03:00 AM
From: Eugene Goodman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

...."Brian Croll, Suns Director of Marketing of Sun's.... Five years out....." Who in their right mind would make a prediction of what will dominate in five years. The sane kind of people that would belive tripe like this. The only valid predictions anyone can make is that there will be change and it won't be whatever is predicted now. Go to your library and check some of the five year old PC Mags. This prediction subsumes that others: IBM, MSFT, Oracle, HWP, CPQ or the hundreds of independents do nothing more acceptable to the market place than this SUN?IBM joint venture. I would bet that IBM has several programs like this being run in parallel. That is what well run companies do. Gene