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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (234)	11/10/1997 8:19:00 PM
From: Columbo	Read Replies (1) of 1600

Welcome back. It was boring around here. This is part of what I don't understand - Sun controls Java. Period. I would like to see some lifting of control, but here's the catch-22. If you leave it to some government board, they'll ruin it. You've hit on an important things- "Promises" write once-run everywhere. I have an app that is deployed world wide for our corporation. The users use Macs, WinTel, and some Unix. Do you have any idea the advantage of not having to distribute the application world wide and make sure it is correctly loaded and runs on everyones machine? Do you realize these f$%^%ing users make changes in their dreams? Can you imagine distributing the weekly changes the "users" ask for? However, if you are writing something complex, such as 3D graphics applications or the like, you are going to want to be able to take advantage of clients that may have 3D accelerator boards or specialized hardcopy devices. This really isn't a feasible solution in Java. This is what JAVA 3D is for (to compete with VRML). You do know that Java still runs on the local machine? Not somewhere else. You'll change your tune when the networks speed up and we have "Webtone", which is similiar to "Dialtone". MH #0

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