Re: Newton = NC ?

Ernest N. Prabhakar (ernest@alumni.caltech.edu)
Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:33:54 -0700 (PDT)


For those of you who do not religiously follow Tim's links, or have not yet
mastered the art of deciphering his cryptic subject lines, this is a link
worth checking out.

The basic idea is that Apple will sell the Newton unit to Sun. THe value is
probably somewhere between $200M and $20M, or perhaps even lower. The news
was broke by USA Today, which oddly has not been the URL people have been
citing:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/mds3.htm
Perhaps they update their online edition later than everyone else.

Anyway, this makes much more sense than the Sun-Apple merger, and explains why
everyone was so tight-lipped about it.

More interestingly, the talks are also rumoured to center around Java. I am
praying for a JavaStep JFC merger. JFC is Sun & Netscape's attempt o build
OpenStep into Java, while JavaStep (not an official name) is Apples' attempt
to build Java into OpenStep. These are two very convergent efforts, and it
would make life a heckuva lot easier for everyone (except Microsoft) if they
merge.

-- Ernie P.