Mary, FWIW, outside of website development stuff, we have one Java-based application in development here. It's a multi-platform browser, in which case any of a number of browsers (PCs, workstations, MAC's, whatever) can interrogate the status of any of several large computers to which they're networked. Or, a person on the browser PC or workstation can look at the internet or play games, whatever. One attractive aspect of Java is its advertised multi-platform capability. So, the browsers can have 95, or NT, or Sun OS, or OS/2 running, and a Java based user interface, for example, is reported to be able to run on top of any of them. Interestingly, re the IBM-Sun Java announcement today, it's the Sun workstation that doesn't run the Java Ap I describe yet (not sure if the WS is running Sun OS or Solaris). Not sure where the problem is either.
Outside of what I describe above, I really don't have much visibility into what Java applications are being developed out there. We have a software developer here that mostly hangs out on another Intel thread. That's Ann Janssen. Are you reading, Ann?
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