3/11/98 Network World Fusion article "Sun COO goes for Microsoft jugular." [SUNW votes for bandwidth abundance...]
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Excerpt: "Zander urged people not to bet against bandwidth. "Pretty soon, we're going to be in a state of abundance with bandwidth," he said."
Sun COO goes for
Microsoft jugular
By Sandra Gittlen
Network World Fusion, 3/11/98
Los Angeles - Going back on what was to be his
"be nice to Microsoft week," Ed Zander, chief
operating officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
emphatically told attendees of Spring Internet World
98 here not to blow their money on Microsoft
Corp.'s Windows 98.
Instead, Zander said Java is the place to put your
money. "This is the year you'll see real live Java
applications at the enterprise level," Zander said. What disks, DRAM and
microprocessors were to the '80s, the Internet, bandwidth and Java are to
today, he added.
Zander urged people not to bet against bandwidth. "Pretty soon, we're
going to be in a state of abundance with bandwidth," he said.
Once that happens, enormous strides in application development can be
made, Zander said. He likened the new state of thin-client networking to
the phone industry, where call forwarding, call waiting and voice mail are all
handled at the switch office, not at the handheld device.
Currently, Zander said there are more than 700,000 Java developers and
70 million Java seats, and more than two million copies of the Java
Developers Kit have been downloaded. He also said that for every 30,000
Java pages, there are only 3,000 ActiveX pages on the Web.
Zander said even MCI Communications Corp.'s announcement here this
week about its new Java-based services proves that Sun's technology is
hot. He said when he asked someone at MCI why they switched to 100%
pure Java, the person said "he wanted to be out of the software distribution
process." Zander said time was being wasted manufacturing and
distributing applications in hard copy.
The only faltering on the Java front that Zander would admit to was Sun's
JavaStation effort. "We still have another six months to a year to prove [the
technology]," he said.
Zander also attacked Microsoft for its education initiatives. He said
Microsoft is misguiding today's youth by having them worry about the
mechanics of computers, including fixing start-up problems and learning
how to load floppies. Instead, industry leaders should be giving children
direct access to the Internet and letting them spend that time actually
learning.
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