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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: StockMan who wrote (3902)9/14/1997 4:52:00 PM
From: Dan Guinan   of 64865
 
The x86 instruction set is an OPEN STANDARD. Thus AMD and Cyrix etc.. The RISC camp decided to discard this, and design their own and failed.

The x86 is not an open standard. This is simply untrue. Does Intel have to bow to the pressures applied by a standards body on the designs of it's chips? That is what an open standard would represent. Besides, I was refering to making the internal architecture open.

Previously there hasn't been a single successful language, that has been proprietary.Sun it seems is in a tight situation. They don't have the resources to control and advance the standard, but if they give it up ol MSFT will make it their own.

All languages start out proprietary in one form or another. But let's be clear on this: Java is more than a language. The language semantics of Java are derived from C and C++. Because of this, it is less important that the language be tightly controled because C and C++ are. But those language features that are specific to Java are, for the most part, completely defined. There is very little left for a standardization body to do.

Don't kid yourself about Sun's resources. Sun is a powerhouse of a company with tremendous resources. You are way off-base in your analysis Stockman.

-Dan
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