George Toft wrote:
"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
IBM sells.....
Fred ___________________
Fred,
Thanks ever so much for posting this stuff. . .
I'm working with two others in a group effort at Hawaii Pacific University. As a part of our MSIS program, we have to analyze a company (Sun Microsystems) and propose a product/service that will give them sustainable strategic competitive advantage over their competition. We chose a product and service called Java Home Computing that will deploy $500 thin clients connected to a server (AT&T WorlNet, AOL, or independent ISP). The owner will never need to buy software as everything is provided on the server. The articles you are posting just adds fuel to show that Sun is already well on its way to deploying exactly what we are proposing with its strategic alliances with AT&T and AOL.
SUN's made some "bad moves" in the past, as all companies do, but I think they're on to something good this time.
Think it will sell? $500 computer where the owner never needs to upgrade the software ever? (All upgrades are performed on the server, so the clients always run the most current version.) MS would probably try to kill it.
YES....there's a market for it. There is a large part of the computing public who don't know "anything" about their 'puter, if they have one, and don't want to either. They just want it to "work" for them. I think this is the one thing that keeps Apple in business. As to MickySoft, yes, if they perceive it as a threat to them, they'll do whatever they can to "kill it!!" Good luck, and regards, Fred ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm@cupserv.org - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>