I hope I lifted the right shell?
news.com
"Corel has developed its own application framework, code-named Remagen, that would allow Windows NT applications to run on any operating system with a Java virtual machine, including network computers. "
Is that an attack on the Windows operating system or not?
If it works, it will be of no importance anymore what operating system one has, as long as there is a Java virtual machine on it.
It may even be a Nc, a video machine or a vacuum cleaner.
It does not matter who wrote the application, Corel promised Remagen will enable them all.
As I wrote before, Java will end the operating system war, just by making the operating system an unimportant detail for techies.
Is this Java promotion or not?
Any new technology only wins when users can use it.
In the IT world that means there have to be applications.
And most applications are for Windows, aren't they?
So if you can use Java (via Remagen) to make Windows applications run everywhere that is a strong point for Java isn't it?
And when there is no need for the Windows operating system anymore to use the worlds largest software potential, the MS - Intel monopoly is broken.. And then the road is open for NC and everything.
In the meantime every hardware maker is encouraged to improve their iron and virtual machine such that it runs fastest. After having fast running virtual machines the 100% Pure Java will break through.
It is a bit like the old history: having the newly invented automobile (modern applications enabled by Java technology) riding the well known old fashioned horsetrack (old operating systems, including Windows).
But when the horses (Windows OS) become economically unimportant, the automobile (JAVA) wins the trust of the society and gasoline (JAVA apps) is available anywhere, highways are developed.
I hope I lifted the right shell?
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