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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: uu who wrote (24639)12/12/1999 7:28:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
I disagree that Sun no longer needs some form of Java standardization. The popularity of Java is dependent in large part on the write once, run anywhere concept and Sun needs other Java vendors to buy into that standardization for it to continue growing in popularity, certainly for it to have any hope of dominance. Without standardization, Java will develop a bunch of extensions and dialects that will lock people into one vendor. Sun may have a strong marketshare, but in terms of Java it isn't strong enough for it to play MS and force everyone to do what they want.

As impressive as the racks of Suns may be at somewhere like Exodus, don't be too sure that this means there is a ton of Java running there. Server-side Java is still a slow performer.
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