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To: SlateColt who wrote (6654)	5/3/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: Marty Lee	Respond to of 11417

Good Morning SlateColt! As certain posts of mine have pointed out previously, the Sprague's insight - do it with microchips - and the visions of Bill Joy's Java and Jini compliment each other; transferring digital intelligence and processing power to the periphery in personal client-side devices. Software Environment in a Broadband World: The hope of Java was to be the "lingua franca" of the Internet. With ever increasing bandwidth, new concepts like Bill Joy's Jini promise a future universal platform on which devices of every description can meet. Speakers: Steve Frank, Founder, MangoSoft Corp. Craig Mundie, Senior Vice President, Consumer Platforms Division, Microsoft Corporation Eric E. Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Novell, Inc. STEVEN SPRAGUE, PRESIDENT AND COO, WAVE SYSTEMS CORP. Moderator: Katrina Garnett, President, CEO and Founder, CrossWorlds Software Sun Lets Jini — and Computing — Out of the Bottle: Since the early 70s proponents of distributed computing have been heralding the day when the processing power of a supercomputer can be put into the hands of the average user. If all goes as Sun Microsystems plans, Jini, its new software, will do just that. Jini promises to allow computers and other devices to cooperate by sharing instructions, dividing a program into parts, and spreading computation across several computers. Does Jini usher in an age when operating systems like Microsoft's become incidental to the power and control of the networked computer in a distributed system? Interviewer: Spencer Reiss, Senior Editor, Wired Magazine Speaker: Bill Joy, Co-founder and Vice President of Research, Sun Microsystems Marty

To: SlateColt who wrote (6654)	5/4/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Marty Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Maybe later? Having read THE CASE OF THE HURTLING HAYSTACK - chapter 3 of LIFE AFTER TELEVISION by George Gilder, it appears that the current agenda of INTERNATIONAL BUTT MUNCH continues to diverge from ours at WAVX. That is, IBM's focus is on producing more “information bottlenecks;” selling expensive software and hordes of Servers to maintenance and butter their own bread rather than “moving intelligence from large centralized systems into the hands of customers.” techweb.com Thoughts? Marty