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To: Kal who wrote (9730)	5/7/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: High-Tech East	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

The SUNW / TCI Press Teleconference From May 6, 1998 - I just listened. Kal, funny you should mention it. The contract is very important to SUNW. It sounds like Personal Java and the Java OS is perfectly positioned to win 100% of the cable TV set-top box market. My opinion is that this is Java's biggest victory to date. 1. TCI will ship at least 25 million set-top boxes starting in June, 1989 with personal Java and the Java OS on all of them. TCI stated that this will probably extend to at least 100 million set-top boxes. 2. SUNW will receive a "per unit fee." 3. It sounds like this establishes Java and SUNW as the standard for "all" set-top boxes. 4. Two or three weeks ago, Microsoft shared this contract with SUNW with their Windows CE. 5. Now, SUNW has 100% of the contract, and Windows 95, NT and CE will run under Java. 6. SUNW will port Java to all the Microsoft units. It sounds like TCI does not trust Microsoft to write that software. It will have to be consistent and compatible with 100% pure Java. 7. TCI chose SUNW so that multiple OSs can be downloaded. 8. Windows will not meet TCI's requirements. Ken Wilson

To: Kal who wrote (9730)	5/8/1998 6:52:00 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Respond to of 64865

I think I upset poor twit and he's gone into hiding. He thinks I'm going to boil his bunnies or something. That's so funny. All I want is to make money from stocks such as SUNW and have a free exchange of ideas here. I've been a sys admin of Sun products for several years, so I'm not just a "guy in a diner" on the subject. However, the twit thinks he knows everything and can predict the future, so has a very closed mind. Maybe, he'll grow up one day. He reminds me of my seventeen year old son who knows everything because he has graduated from high school. It makes me wonder how I forgot so much since I was his age, because I used to know everything, too :-))

To: Kal who wrote (9730)	5/8/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Here's the real skinny. tci licensed personal java, which is some type of development environment. why does the average joe need this? it is redundant because it is on top of ce. Also, tci DID NOT license the JavaOS. They do however, have an OPTIION to license JavaOS. Doesn't everyone? I bet I could get an OPTION to license JavoOS. there was no mention of per unit fees in the press release.

To: Kal who wrote (9730)	5/8/1998 10:00:00 AM
From: Homer	Respond to of 64865

a very nice TCI story for Sun infoworld.com "Sun, Microsoft, and the other operating system vendors have to perform," Beddow said. "So I would say destiny is in their hands." TCI also obtained the option to license Sun's JavaOS for Consumers operating system, due out in the first half of 1999. In addition, TCI will support Sun's JavaTV API, Sun executives said on Wednesday. Sun will collect an undisclosed licensing fee from TCI for each set-top box, officials said. TCI wants to make sure that applications written for its devices are written to the Java API and not directly to any of the operating systems included with the set-top box, unless there is a specific reason, such as a latency issue, which requires an application to be directly tied to a particular operating system, Beddow said. "IP telephony, for example, is one application that may be written to the OS," Beddow said in a conference call Wednesday. "We define the unit and we want to make the decision on what it will include and how applications are written to it."