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To: jim A who wrote (5455)	11/12/1997 7:03:00 AM
From: Kashish King	of 64865

Despite a virtually unlimited budget for development, marketing and support, it has taken Microsoft almost 10 years to get their component model to the point where software developers have actually started to use it to build applications. Microsoft's component technology allows legacy languages to communicate and share components based on the lowest common denominator language: Visual Basic. This is not a theory, it is a fact that Microsoft's whole "language independence" effort has been geared toward Visual Basic. They don't want language independence, they want their language. Unfortunately for them, the whole system is a mess. Software reuse is limited and extending components is next to impossible. The whole poorly designed, poorly thought out mess has resulted in extreme bloatware that makes Java look like optimized assembly. Direct Java to ActiveXcrement comparisons will reveal the truth about that but right now people are comparing Java and legacy Windows applications. The fact that there is a vastly superior alternative that doesn't rely on Windows spells the end of Microsoft's archaic business appliances and the dawn of something much more powerful.

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