Of course Eric, well, that was 8/8. Now it's 8/10 and Jobs and Ellison have kissed Pope Willy's ass right? The author is too passionate <g>, and IMO this is a moot point (MSFT killing JAVA (SUN'S JAVA!). Why? Cause' it's gonna happen (i.e., again Pure JAVA being killed off, that is -- watch!) Oh, you posted from the article:
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"...Within two years after its introduction by Sun
Microsystems, Java has become the most powerful
movement in computing. Fueled by the efforts of some
400,000 developers, Java has the power to break
Microsoft's lockin of applications profits and lockout of
rival operating systems."
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And I say, within "one stroke of the pen", and "one phone call", the above statement will effectively be nullified. I don't agree with it, but that's what money and power can buy.
So, having said that, I repost my question to Scott Lemon again to get his wisdom on this issue:
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Scott. Question. Does Eric have a
"contingency plan" in place (that you know of), just in case (mind you -- just in the
teensy weensy case..), Microsoft does, in fact, succeed in obliterating "Pure JAVA"?
You know, the ol' Apple deal of t'other day? I mean, since Eric is committed to good
old "write-once, run anywhere" cross-platform JAVA, and just suppose for a sec. that
y'all are gonna have to write to MSFT API's (ala MSFT's version of JAVA), are you
postioned to do that? Better yet, do you think MSFT will LET you do that? <g>
Or, is Novell's position like Netscape, i.e., "it's no big thing"? (You see IBM isn't
selling NOS's (let's not discuss OS/2, OK?)). SUN and the rest of the consortium are
going to have to "deal with that".
But, only Novell and Microsoft are selling NOS's (as far as Wintel platforms are
concerned, and as far as I know), and any JAVA APPS (that I know Novell would
dearly like to deliver), will be in what flavor? I mean, you ARE trying to give
developers options OTHER than NLM's aren't you?
I'm surprised this discussion hasn't surfaced here as of yet.
Regards,
Joe...<or the "concern" thereof...>
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PS: I know, Novell's gonna kiss Willy's ass some more too, right Scott? Well, that's okay too, as long as I (and the rest of the longs make money here), because we aren't doing "religion" here, it's MONEY Scott, plain, dirty, capitalistic, freaking MONEY!!!! Just like Gates and the rest of them.
So when is Eric gonna start kissing? |
