Carmine:
> it would be nice to think that all companies and software
> programmers had to go through SUNW(JAVA software)to take advantage
> of the internet....
As far as programmers/software engineers are concerned, Java has now become almost a requirement. It is similar to the mid 80's when C had become an essential requirement to know by a programmer. Perhaps knowing Java up to a year ago was still a luxury but as Java and Java related applications evolve and owning the information technology becomes cheap and simplified this is no longer just a luxury. This is natural since the consumer market's demand to own the information technology at low costs and in a simplify format requires products whose foundation currently can only be based on a technology we have come to know as Java (Sun's version of the technology and no one elses's - in particular Microsoft's!)
You state:
> like wise can companies use their own
> applications and devices wthout going through SUNW(JAVA)to take
> advantage of the internet?
Certainly this is possible, however the scalability and extensibility of owning the information technology will become limited. The basic HTML technology will provide the basics of such ownership and of course there would be no need for Java. But that would be very confined and limited. To design products for the purpose of accessing and owning the information technology one can of course always use Microsoft's technology, by for example designing applications that are purely based on ActiveX. But then you run into that problem of being limited only to the desktop PC market running Microsoft OS. The fact that desktop PC is now only a fraction of the computing world, rather than being the computing world, requires companies (e.g. Oracle, Intuit, Borland, Informix, Sybase, etc.) to go through Sun's Java technology for the architecture, design and implementation of their products.
As always just my humble opinion.
Regards,
Addi Jamshidi |
