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To: micromike who wrote (4527)	10/10/1997 11:31:00 PM
From: uu	of 64865

Mike: There is one huge distinction between now and the past. Developers' preference is no longer relevant when choosing the technology they want to utilize! It is no longer the developers that drive the software market, but rather the requirements that the market has come to expect from those employing the developers that drive the software market! Microsoft is betting heavily on the developers to jump into their camp, but the fact is developers are irrlevant and no longer a main factor when it comes to choosing the technology! Therefore even if software developers prefer the painful Microsoft technology for whatever reason, they can not utilize that technology because their perspective employers are looking to penetrate a broader consumer market than the traditional PC-only users. And the only technology that makes it possible for these business entities to achieve their goal is what Sun owns and is offering! Despite the fact that Microsoft still remains the major software tool provider to developers, because of the excitement Sun's vision and concepts have generated the number one hot technology that developers are after at this time is Java. Therefore even from that perspective Microsoft is about to lose its only supporters (namely the developers) whom up to this point had no other choice but to use Microsoft's technology to fullfil their employers objectives. However with so many small/startup companies (the little Microsoft's of the world) in addition to the bigger players (IBM, Oracle, etc.) who are aggressively providing an alternative to the old Microsoft painful technology by utilizing Java, I can with confident say that the majority of developers have and wil continue to come to strongly believe in the irrerlevency of Microsoft! And this comes from someone who ever since Microsoft went public has been using its technology from the DOS days to their new age of ActiveX, DCOM, DirectX, etc. and has been (hopefuly no longer!) a Microsoft nerd (namely yours truly)! Regards, Addi Jamshidi

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