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To: Kevin Ose who wrote (4911)	4/12/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 8218

Correct Kevin and IBM is also nice enough to give away some JAVA ... to those nice PC folks that use the Windows OS on INTC CPUs : " IBM Releases Java Software For Windows International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it was making available free software that will help write applications in Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news)'s Java programming language that run on Windows. The software, one of many so-called Java Virtual Machines, lies between a computer operating system and applications written in Java. Java lets programmers write an application once that will run on many different computing environments. ...,'' said Rod Smith, chief technology officer of Java at IBM. ''They (MSFT) are not investing in the technology to stay with the industry's direction...It is important for many of our customers to have a compliant and fast JVM to run on Windows.'' IBM said its software, in some cases, is as much as 52 percent faster than other Windows versions. The computer group said its software will be available beginning Monday for free over the Internet at www.ibm.com/java/. ''It's an alternative to Sun's and Microsoft's Java implementation for Windows,'' said Tom Neffenger, chief technology officer of Volano, a San Francisco-based start-up that develops chat server software. ''IBM did something that much better.'' dailynews.yahoo.com Tommorrow the other half of the Wintel du-opoly , INTC , should reveal a reduced profit margin on its CPU's , and that is before before the margin pressure it will feel when IBM unleashes its G4 (CPU) PowerPCs . Jim K.