Uh.. Speaking of JAVA. PMFJI Paul... Scott. Question. Does Eric have a
"contingency plan" in place (that you know of), just in case (mind you -- just in the teensy weensy case..), Microsoft does, in fact, succeed in obliterating "Pure JAVA"? You know, the ol' Apple deal of t'other day? I mean, since Eric is committed to good old "write-once, run anywhere" cross-platform JAVA, and just suppose for a sec. that y'all are gonna have to write to MSFT API's (ala MSFT's version of JAVA), are you postioned to do that? Better yet, do you think MSFT will LET you do that? <g>
Or, is Novell's position like Netscape, i.e., "it's no big thing"? (You see IBM isn't selling NOS's (let's not discuss OS/2, OK?)). SUN and the rest of the consortium are going to have to "deal with that".
But, only Novell and Microsoft are selling NOS's (as far as Wintel platforms are concerned, and as far as I know), and any JAVA APPS (that I know Novell would dearly like to deliver), will be in what flavor? I mean, you ARE trying to give developers options OTHER than NLM's aren't you?
I'm surprised this discussion hasn't surfaced here as of yet.
Regards,
Joe...<or the "concern" thereof...>
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