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To: ALTERN8 who wrote (12471)	4/23/1999 12:25:00 PM
From: CGarcia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Better operating system than windows? Surely you jest...Windows is to the avg user what AOL is to their online needs...the less fortunates(techwise) will always run to windows for their computing needs...just as they run to AOL to go online...I am running a beta of Windows 2000, and from what I have seen so far, try and imagine the simplicity of windows 95, with the reliability(I have yet to experience any crashes since I installed it 2 months ago) of Windows NT...Let's face the facts..Microsoft DOES have a monopoly, but hey...AOL is getting pretty close to one themselves(as far as membership growth is concerned)...Looks like both of these companies will be around for yrs to come, and the stock price should keep heading north at a pretty fast rate :) God bless technology!

To: ALTERN8 who wrote (12471)	4/23/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Dr. Zax	Respond to of 41369

And how many years into the future are we predicting here? I offer this merely as a suggestion. If you really want dates.... I would say a working beta (not counting versions of Linux already out) of the new operating system could be put together in 3 months. SUNW would then want to make sure it works. So best case scenario is a release by Oct/Nov/Dec area. The largest problem with a new operating system is getting people to write programs that will run on it. Bare minimum would be a good Word Processing program, a Good Quicken clone (is Intuit related to MSFT? I don't know), a good Spreadsheet program and a good browser. The browser is easy - Netscape. The Other three would take a team of people a couple of months to put together. Distribution comes initially from AOL (Feb/March and forward), but also by free downloads off SUNW site, and possibly through IBM. I like the Novell idea. They could play a role in the conglomeration. I am not out to oust MSFT, just share in their market. By being the largest market cap stock, they are just a good goal to set to try and overcome. So in answer to your question. One year at best. Probably more like 2 or 3. I still hold that AOL is the only company that has a possibility of getting to $1 tril market cap before MSFT. Dr. Zax