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To: mauser96 who wrote (1716)	7/25/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3424

>Overcoming a massive built in standard is very difficult, and I suspect Java will remain a popular but niche product. So far sales of thin client computers back up this guess. You are confusing NCs (network computers) with thin client computing. Thin client computing is simply the implementation of applications through browser interfaces. The advantage of thin client computing is in the cost of maintaining the infrastructure of the application. (There is NO application software on the client to maintain.) You can see that thin client computing is easily implemented on PCs. Thin client computing does not rely on the purchase of NCs. If you want to find a gauge of the future of thin client computing, look at the sale of browsers. When the applications are deployable through thin client computing, the clients are already configured to support them.