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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: JC Jaros who wrote (32634)6/4/2000 3:50:00 AM
From: QwikSand  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
I find the minority position of IBM and BEAS Java politics with regard to 'brand' to be decidedly un-hip

Maybe un-hip but certainly un-derstandable. As long as Sun owns the brand, the word 'Java'and a host of associated words and acronyms are ads for Sun every time somebody hears or reads them. These IBM and BEA guys are p*ssed off because they're forced to play Sun's game in order to succeed themselves. And the irony, as you point out, is that it's not by the illegal M$-style extortion the industry had come to accept, but simply by Sun's good market maneuvering sustained over a period of four years in the face of a lot of obstacles.

Then again what is hip? :-)

--QS
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