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To: Jon Tara who wrote (3025)7/8/1997 2:51:00 AM
From: Randy Giese   of 64865
 
Jon, my personal feeling is that we need systems that are less
generalistic and more flexible (eg. customizable) to user and/or
market requirements. Here is an interesting comment from John Gage of
Sun in the June 1997 issue of Sunworld:

"NT right now is moderately reliable but not very reliable ... it's
easy for people to use but in the long term it's dead. It can't be
made secure. Same with Unix. They're both big, 20 million lines of
code, written in C and C++, you can't maintain them -- you
have to wait for the company to fix a bug. It's just too slow. And it
can't scale very well. You can't run Solaris in your wrist
watch. You can't run NT in your wrist watch. You can run Java Virtual
Machine in your wrist watch. "

Scaleability works in both directions. We need an open architecture
which promotes a modular approach where services can be added/removed
as dictated by user requirements. IMO, JavaOS and Java Server are designed with this in mind. The WinTel solution never was and now its
either continue with hack city or start over.
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