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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (874)	12/11/1998 7:06:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 5853

Re: E-5000s I don't see the implication. It's sort of like AT&T imagining that to run programs written in C you'd have to use an NCR computer since AT&T "owned" both. Java everywhere implies commoditization at the server end. Can a Java smart card (or any other "pure Java" program) tell what sort of server it's talking with? Those E-5000s and their successors will have to compete for the business just like everyone else.

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (874)	12/12/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: Bruce Jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

I think you need to look at that math again. By my computations, "1 billion smart cards over 10 years @.25 royalty per unit" would be $250 million per year, or $2.5 billion total not "$25 million per year." and "50,000 E-5000's sold to service the Java-based smart cards (1 server per 20,000 customers) @$500,000 per unit would be $25 billion TOTAL (taking your estimate of "1 server per 20,000 customers", that only equals 50,000 E-5000's if your customer count is the ten year total of 1 billion) $2.5 billion vs $25 billion, or a factor of 10, not 100 times better.