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To: Hiram Walker who wrote (2460)	7/13/1998 9:49:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 29970

Interesting Post on Tacoma Of course, 30 miles north of Tacoma, you have Seattle and King County with market of several million people. They are very unhappy with TCI and this has been documented in the local press. they are very interested in Tacoma's experience and will be watching it closely. Ken

To: Hiram Walker who wrote (2460)	7/13/1998 12:38:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Tacoma is headed for disaster as I suspected. The disaster will come from an electric utility trying to run a cable operation. This is what Tacome will get worse service than TCI ever delivered and at a higher cost. In the end they will crawl back to TCI to bail them out of this mistake. ATHM will be the beneficiary because the residents will be willing to swallow the extra cost for it after being softened up by the alternative higher expense. You refuse to look at 21st Century objectively. The companies that go public with mostly great expectations are new concept companies, not old concept wrapped in new paper. With the higher returns available through carrying broadband services the cable companies are still thin margin cash cows. Before you become a cash cow so that you can leverage your balance sheet, you have to establish a growing cash flow. 21st Century hasn't done that yet. The capital obtained from borrowings is best efforts and that means once they have a basic build-out, they won't be able to go to the well until they have operating history. While they're busy doing that, TCI will be grabbing nearby franchises and putting in provocative broadband services including ATHM. That will check the growth of 21st Century. I use VJ++ 6.0. I use the JDK. The example software in the JDK when cut and pasted into the IDE of VJ++ runs somewhat better than the code examples distributed by MSFT. I haven't run any "Sun JAVA apps", so I don't know to which you are referring. As far as I know there should be no problem because the two are not that far apart. After all, aren't they somewhat hardware independent? To be that they can't be very machine code level different. What Sun Java apps do you mean?