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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tim Luke who wrote (12955)	12/4/1998 11:42:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

An interesting snippet from the MSFT trail indicating that MSFT Java is indeed faster than Suns: 'Alarmed' Sun e-mail Microsoft attorneys homed in on Sun's apparent concern over Microsoft's performance edge in running Java applications vs. their own, "pure" Java. Slides from one internal presentation showed that Sun executives were concerned Netscape "will likely face serious problems attempting to build a robust, 100 percent Pure Java browser." Another e-mail from Chet Silvestri, a senior manager in the company's computer hardware division, showed real concern. Microsoft's Explorer browser with its own Java software "completely blew away every benchmark." "Somebody ought to do something about this NOW," he wrote.