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To: JDN who wrote (10444)	7/15/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: almaxel	Respond to of 64865

More toothache with Win98: bergen.com Ralf

To: JDN who wrote (10444)	7/15/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

This Jini announcement doesn't really mark the first stirring of a new paradigm shift. It's an extension of what Java has been about from the beginning. That's why people who think Java is a language are pretty clueless. Yahoo and Amazon.com and other "next big thing" companies with near-zero earnings and near-infinite P/E's don't have to answer the question "how is this going to make them money" because the street can understand the concept. With Jini and Java they can't...yet. The person who said "Sun's stuff is too hard" was right on. People haven't started to question the patently absurd idea that in 2005 everybody will have their own five-terabyte hard drive on their desk and run Windows NT 99 (which came out in 2004 and requires two gigabytes of RAM). But Java has been showing us what the real future of the user's side of computing is going to be about from the day it was announced. This is just another step on the path, sort of the lifting of the second veil. Even if the street doesn't get the future until it has actually arrived, at this point they'll have to get it soon, because they can now see it arriving. Regards, --QwikSand