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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (225)	11/10/1997 3:47:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) of 1600

It's already happening. The ossification process is already well under way at Microsoft, which is intent on "Preserving The Windows Monopoly" at all costs rather than embracing the future as represented by Java and the Internet. The reason for this choice is obvious: facing the future means restructuring the company and its products, and facing sharply lower profit margins on their current line of OS and business applications products. Make no mistake: theirs is a "circle the wagons" business strategy. They want to slow down and impede change. Why is Java the future? Because people are blindly following it becase it is "Not-MS". Sun has done a masterful job at coming up with a way to sell their technology - position it as the "Microsoft alternative", and have all the anti-MS people jump on it. My question is, what if they turn out to have been wrong about Preserving The Windows Monopoly (something we won't know for 5-10 years)? What if Java wins the war they have started? What will Microsoft do when they figure that out? Will they retool their whole product line or production process, or will they, like the auto industry before them, go the political route? In what way does Java threaten Microsoft? 1) Java still has to have an underlying OS to operate the computer. Which OS will run Java the fastest? Right now it is Windows95/NT. 2) People haven't discarded their DOS apps yet. What makes you think 150 million users are going to suddenly switch over and use Java apps? 3) Why do you think Micosoft cannot produce the most successful Java applications available?

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