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To: micromike who wrote (8372)12/29/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: mowa   of 9798
 
Mike,

And for those who put a lot of hope in Star Office/Sun consider this, Sun was the architect and guiding hand of Java and bears principle responsibility for it's lack of success in the market. How much of Corel's Word Perfect/Java failure was tied to Java's larger failure? ...was a real question. How large a roll did Java's failure to deliver on it's promise to *effectively* "write once run everywhere" contribute to the failure of WP/Java edition?

I am not a big supporter of Cowpland, he often seems to me to be "a day late and a dollar short". Just raising question s about Sun/Java and it's possible competition to WP Office 2000 for Linux.

Corel was steamrolled by MS (as were many other companies, some much more competitively astute) and it seems to be a company floundering around for a life preserver. The gist of my post was that I *believe* they have finally found one in Linux that even Cowpland would have a hard time not making good on. Thus it seems to me that the company has some up-side playability that will materialize.

My statements on Java remain, it was slow to adoption, has yet to fulfill expectations, has generally slow performance (it is a type of emulator, Java *Virtual* Machine) and it's level of usage is yet to be fully determined (by many accounts it's planned usage is scaled down from original hopes and expectations).

Yes I agree Cowpland is crying *anything* he thinks will reverse his fortune.

Peace

mowa
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