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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (47042)	6/20/2000 3:02:00 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (1) of 74651

"M$FT got caught red handed in their attempt to pirate jvm. That's why there are certification tests and that's why M$FT failed the tests." Microsoft's JVM was more compliant than Sun's! I don't know if it still is. In addition, let's say you're a Windows programmer who likes Java. You like it so much that you'd like to add some calls to Win32 functions. Microsoft allowed that in Visual J++, with a setting that allowed such support to be turned on/off. Sun had a fit because it allowed Java do things that were platform specific. Java was more powerful, but it hurt Sun's vision for a non-Windows platform. Consumers benefitted from it, and they could turn it off via the Visual J++ setting. Java attracts people because of garbage-collection, a great syntax, and because of beans/classes. New languages can do the same thing, and unless Java stays attractive, it will become history like other languages. I'm not saying people aren't completely happy with it now, though.

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