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To: ftth who wrote (3674)	12/31/1998 1:35:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Man, is it good to hear from you. I really missed your whippings you used to give me. Franz rolled through and I blasted him. He hasn't blasted back so I hope he's not mad. Sure hope you guys own a piece of the rock. I've been here holding the fort for all these months. You told me to hold it well and hold it I have. Still having latency problems? What ever happened on that front? Given your expertise I'm sure it was just a misconfiguration of NT Ras or wrong registry entry, and is long solved. There are a lot of paper thin margin players in STBs like GIC. Hard to believe it would make sense to jump into more unprofitability. They're not set-up to work on simpleton devices though next generation STBs promise functionality almost up to PC OS. Say a system on a chip that has functionality including small disk or solid state drive and peripheral supporting bus. That would be worthwhile for them to design, but not to manufacture. We have to remember that SUNW is a software OS creator and mid-range computer mfger. I don't know if compact board level design and construction actually fits their expertise though seeming it should. Seems it's more down INTC's line. In any event I don't see where this can lead. SUNW is hardware. AOL is service. Hard marriage there as evidenced by many attempts by others over the decades. AOL shouldn't want to get involved with hardware even if it's part of the whole package. Maybe AOL will just be a reseller of Sun's OEM as you suggest. I don't see much profit accruing to AOL. Maybe it's just the "we provide the whole nine yards" argument.