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To: rhet0ric who wrote (10624)4/1/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: David Semoreson   of 213177
 
Re: Apple's Java Strategy - a great post, rhetOric!

>Apple's Java strategy is brilliant, in my opinion, and indicative of
>Jobs's vision of where the industry is going, and his knowledge of
>how to take advantage of different possible futures.

Wholeheartedly agreed - most people like to categorize him as a failure or as a prick to employees. His strategy AND implementation on clones, retailers, BTO, AppleStore, Java, MacOS, Rhapsody, MSFT alliance have all been right on IMO.

Memo to BOD - give him whatever he wants (as long as the options are not in-the-money).

>In return, I suspect that MS may have conceded to integrate Yellow
>Boxes on Win95 and WinNT.

I posted about this awhile ago, and think it is obviously a good quid pro quo for MSFT, and helps them with the DOJ as well.

** David
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