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To: Irish99 who wrote (10415)	7/13/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: Scott McPealy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"Sun has made a strategic mistake with this acquisition," said Yefim Natis, an analyst at the Gartner Group, in Stamford Conn. "Now in order to complete the whole picture of what they need -- and that includes messaging, transaction support, application integration middleware -- they will have to acquire other companies and integrate what they have with what NetDynamics has, which is a very difficult task and very likely to fail." For instance, NetDynamics does not yet support Sun's Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification, its Java Database Connectivity, or its Java Servlett APIs, and it uses Inprise's object request broker (ORB) technology instead of Sun's JavaIDL ORB. Integration of all these technologies may take as long as one year to complete, analysts said. Seventy percent of NetDynamics servers are on the Windows NT platform, and they implement Microsoft's JView Java virtual machine. Sun is in legal battles with Microsoft over the latter company's implementation of Java. As a result, JView support will not continue, according to Alan Baratz, president of the Java Software division. infoworld.com ------------------------ NetDynamics has significant marketshare. 70% of NetDynamics on NT. NetDynamics going bellyup. MSFT NT integrated middleware progressing. Sun jumps in and hopes to move NetDynamics customers over to Solaris. The Sun strategy is counter MSFT's every move: Acquisitions Diba --> WebTV Chorus --> WindowsCE NetDynamics --> NT MTS, Queue, etc Technology Javastation --> Windows Desktop PC