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     A  classical  result  due  to  H. Cartan  states  that  if  a  sequence  
      of
     holomorphic automorphisms of the unit disk
  of
     holomorphic automorphisms of the unit disk 
      of
 of 
      is pointwise convergent
                                                        
                                                                  
     on
 is pointwise convergent
                                                        
                                                                  
     on 
      to a limit
 to a limit 
      and
 and 
      is bounded away from the boundary
 is bounded away from the boundary 
      ,
     then
,
     then 
      is a holomorphic automorphism of
 is a holomorphic automorphism of 
      . The analogous result for the
     open unit ball
. The analogous result for the
     open unit ball 
      of a complex Banach space
 of a complex Banach space 
      is not true in general. Here we
     consider pointwise convergent nets
 is not true in general. Here we
     consider pointwise convergent nets 
      of holomorphic automorphisms of the
     unit balls of those Banach spaces known as special Cartan factors and establish
     a sufficient condition for the pointwise limit
 of holomorphic automorphisms of the
     unit balls of those Banach spaces known as special Cartan factors and establish
     a sufficient condition for the pointwise limit 
      to be a holomorphic
     automorphism of
 to be a holomorphic
     automorphism of  .
.
     
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 46G20, 32M15.