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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (5847)11/30/1997 1:15:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Microsoft has been shipping Visual Java for a long time. As far as goodwill, it's not in their interest to promote technologies which leave applications that use those technologies with a way out. Microsoft's technology is poorly designed and poorly implemented but they make up for that, in large part, by throwing millions of dollars into tools, patches and rewrites and by providing top-notch support services. The problem is they have no respect for the advantages of object-oriented software tools and prefer to stick with Visual Basic since that's the best means of keeping Windows applications and Windows developers firmly anchored to Windows. They let C++ die on the vine providing nothing significant in the way of an interactive GUI builders, the Visual in Visual C++ is really laughable and they do not supply developers with even the most basic C++ components. All of that is deliberate, intentional, they do it on purpose. Unfortunately for them, Java represents an open standard that also includes the component model and class libraries and so now they are in BIG trouble. Nobody will use J++ (the name of their Java tool) if it doesn't follow the standard. Java is now an international standard and that's really going to light a fire under Gate's ass and he will feel the heat over the next few quarters and beyond.

Whatever this lawsuit is costing, Sun is getting good value from all of the press coverage. I don't think they should settle; I think they should continue with this.
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