Hi V.K
>>>>MSFT looked at the workstation and saw tremendous opportunity...after all it wasn't
going to be too long before every desk in the office was going to be equipped with a
PC. Expanding that same logic to the average household and you have ..... <<<<<
FYI.
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Scott McNealy urged VARs to write
Java applications rather than get hooked on the “twinkie-baited, barbed-hooked”;
of Microsoft Corp.'s ActiveX technology.
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"ActiveX is nothing more than a velcro ball that is not velcro but
like a barbed-sharp wire metal hook. Once you get that in your mouth, you
don't dare try to spit it out. Your mouth will come with it," he said
in a press conference after his packed Comdex keynote.<BR>
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The flamboyant Sun chief executive entertained several thousand people,
who laughed and cheered his Microsoft Windows-bashing. McNealy called Windows
a "petri dish of choice."<BR>
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“The problem is, once you have written to ActiveX, it only runs on
the Microsoft client,”; said McNealy. “That is their goal, that
is their hope, that is the scary thing. That's why I am here evangelizing.”<BR>
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Java provides operating system and hardware platform independence, said
McNealy. He advised VARs grappling with what operating system to choose:
“Write to all of them in Java.”<BR>
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”I just hope the Windows API survives in the long term,”; McNealy
said. He said it is not worth arguing with those that are happy
with their Windows environment. He predicted those people will be “road
pancake in about two years.”<BR>
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McNealy also showed off a Java client prototype, the size of a book at the
Comdex/Spring trade show, Chicago.<BR>
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”This is what you need--no CD, no floppy, no disk, just a network port
and a keyboard and mouse,” said McNealy, holding the small, lightweight
metal box, measuring about 2.5 inches high x 8 inches wide.<BR>
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Sun already has started shipping some of the early production Java client
models for beta-testing, said McNealy.<BR>
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McNealy said Sun can “make money doing things in Java, but the nice
thing about most of Sun's business is you can't download a Java client for
free out over the Internet. You can't download this”; he said, holding
up the box.<BR>
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McNealy also said Java clients will be bought everywhere, from phone stores,
cable TV companies to VARs selling PCs.<BR>
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”You will buy your Java client when you go to a phone store and buy
a Nortel phone. Within a few years, I think every TV will have a cable modem
and a Java Virtual Machine embedded in it. It'll just be there. Your clicker
will have a QWERTY keyboard in it”<BR>
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”Every browser that you buy will have the Java Virtual Machine embedded
in it”; he added.<BR>
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McNealy predicted the Java Virtual Machine also will be embedded in network
hubs, routers, switches, game machines, printers, copiers and even automobiles. |
