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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY!

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To: Kashish King who wrote (8190)12/24/1997 6:15:00 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 10836
 
I can't stress this enough: the banks and IS departments other large corporate institutions are not going to accept proprietary implementations when there are open alternatives based on the same technology.

Crap. They've been accepting it for years; I doubt they're going to get too excited about it now. Particularly until the "open" alternatives become robust enough to cut the mustard. And I don't think anyone is really sure how "open" the "open alternatives" are going to be.

but in the long run they will have to adopt an open Java or be annihilated.

You may be right; but history does not reflect it to be the case. This war isn't over; Microsoft may yet win Java. Further, they've got everyone feeling sorry for them over this browser crap now.
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