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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: uu who wrote (10765)	8/6/1998 1:51:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Now here's something you don't see every day. Hope it's not contrarian. Regards, --QwikSand messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com

To: uu who wrote (10765)	8/6/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: George Bielski	Respond to of 64865

>>Short covering? I doubt it. In a continuing bull market where momentum playing continues to dictate the direction of the overall market stocks do go up not because of fundamentals but rather perception. Momentum players are looking around to make up their losses of the past few days. Thus their quick in and out of big cap stocks with any sort of rumor surrounding them will be the tendency for quite sometime. At this time SUNW is the perfect target of momentum players. With the idiotic notion of IBM buying Sun the perfect scenario has been written for momentum players to make up their very recent losses (in billions of dollars) by hyping and pushing the stock up.<< ADDI, sounds like a better explanation than my thought on short covering. Another thought for consideration. SUNW is on the prowl for a software company, that's a fact! Any ideas on what companies they may be looking at??

To: uu who wrote (10765)	8/8/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: micromike	Respond to of 64865

What's your take on JINI Sun's Jini brings three wishes to the table infoworld.com The long-term future for Sun's development project, however, is still open to question. Could Jini grant Sun's remaining two wishes -- redefine the model for computing that has held for the past 20 years as well as give birth to a new world of electronic markets? "Someone has to make the bet," Farber said. "When you bet, sometimes you win and some times you lose... You need people who will go out and do it. I hope Sun has that courage to do it." The key attribute of Jini, according to Sun, is that the software will make it easier for developers to build distributed systems. In the Jini world view, anything connected to a network -- be it a hard drive, person, or software -- is represented by a software object, and Jini provides a way to label those objects. --- The way I see it Sun has a great concept but with a company like MS trying to undermine any innovative idea that could hurt the Windows empire will it come under the same kind of fragmentation that Java is presently struggling with. The ace in the hole for Sun is that it's going to give away the source code for FREE. Maybe they should apply for ISO approval. I also noted that you are one again expecting Sun to come under selling pressure. Last time you did a good job on the call lets see what happens this time. Are you expecting soft sales or still sticking to Wall Streets perception? The law suit with MS is coming in the fall and this could also cause some investor nervousness. JMHO Mike