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To: uu who wrote (3445)7/31/1997 7:26:00 PM
From: Andy M.   of 64865
 
Addi,

If you can bear with me here a little longer...

You say that there is a movement among developers away from Window's specific development. OK, but doesn't that movement assume a viable easy-to-use cross-platform model? But if windows--a big part of the existing computer world--stands outside the cross-platform model, then how will the whole industry go to this cross-platform model? Isn't there potential for a major bifurcation? Sometimes it sounds as though you use the thin-client model as a premise--as how computing is done now--and the conclusion is that Microsoft will not succeed in fragmenting Java because it is the language of the dominant cross-platform thin-client model. But isn't it the other way around, that Java has to succeed before the thin client model, or the cross-platform model can dominate? After all, the thin client model hasn't really become a reality yet. Couldn't all the momentum toward the thin-client model be upset by Microsoft's recent maneuver? Or is it not true to say that the cross-platform model and the thin client model are the same thing? Will the thin client model go forward without cross-platform capability? As far as comparing Windows and Macintosh, did Macintosh ever have the market dominance windows enjoys now? As I understand it, Apple did not license Macintosh and so inadvertently hurt the spread of it, so it never achieved the critical mass that windows has. That huge critical mass is what differentiates Windows from Macintosh, and what makes me think that it will be very hard to treat Microsoft as irrelevant. Don't mean to wear out your patience...
Andy
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