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To: damniseedemons who wrote (10429)	6/23/1997 10:44:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	of 24154

Sal, I agree that Microsoft has some products based on open standards and some based on proprietary standards. But, if you read the open standards pledge, it says that the company's core products will be based on open standards. Microsoft cannot really make that pledge (at least not the Microsoft that exists today). It has to defend the Windows frnachise. As long as Microsoft does not control the Internet and as long as the Internet is not just an extension of Windows, Microsoft is going to have to be porting its proprietary platforms to the Internet and vice-versa. It's like with e-mail: you can have a system based on proprietary standards that converts everything to Internet standards before sending it out, or you can base your e-mail system on Internet standards from the start. Of course, by so doing, you give up that all-important proprietary lock. As for the aside on Java: My point was not that Java is "open" and C++ isn't. My point is, if the company really were committed to Java, and really wanted to make Java a better language or platform that company would write its key applications in Java. Here's an interesting piece regarding Netscape's plans for the Java version of Communicator. netscapeworld.com Netscape clearly has some work ahead of it if COmmunicaotr is going to be the best of breed platform for running Java: "Netscape has a hell of a challenge ahead since Communicator doesn't run Java applets very well," said Winograd. "I am not at all convinced that CORBA's security is up to the tasks that Netscape would have them do, and Sun Microsystems really need to get its story straight on where RMI (remote method invocation) is going before it expects us to take them seriously." But flaw in Microsoft's strategy becomes apparent from the following: . . . we're now being forced to build extranets and we need to look to CORBA or Active X and Java to build them because it's simply not practical to tell our customers or suppliers to standardize on, say, Windows NT."

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