From: Lawrence.Hughes@Software.com (Lawrence Hughes)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:34:12 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: First Union Ahead of Curve with Sun's "JavaStation"
Message-ID: <3.0b26.32.19961029143328.00a26b30@pop-sb.software.com>
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At 11:30 AM 10/28/96 -0800, you wrote:
>When Sun Microsystems unveils today what it is touting as a radical advance 
>in business computing, First Union Corp. will be in the vanguard of those 
>adopting it.

Dunno - sounds to me like an act of desperation that is at least 99.44%
hype, from a company that has refused to acknowledge that the UNIX
market is crashing even as we speak. While I was Intergraph HQ in
1989-1993, we saw projections of that coming demise from IDC, etc.
Which had a lot to do with the big switch there to Intel/NT. 

Especially love the way they don't figure the price of any of those
"fat $ervers" (from guess what California company) into the overall
costs.... seems to be mostly a way to dupe folks into shifting funds
from all those wonderful, independence granting PCs into paying for
it-was-good-enough-for-my-dad-it's-good-enough-for-me big iron at
the center, with dumb terminals (no matter what you call 'em) tethered
to it. And $1500 is a lot for a dumb terminal.

And that dazzling array of nearly 500 craplets.. I mean Java apps...
that's sure a lot of eye candy, but I'd hate to try to run a business
with them.

Get real. No one, including a badly aging Sun, will ever put the
distributed computing genie back in the "glass house" bottle that
PC's allowed us to escape from DECADES ago. 





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