And most importantly, are we going to just trade MSFT's stranglehold on the Windows API for Sun's stranglehold on the JVM?
This was being coughed up by Microsoft almost two years ago so I am a little surprised that you have latched on to it this late in the game. For starters, there are few if any who think procedural APIs are a better alternative to a clean set of modern class libraries designed for a secure networked environment. But that's not why that trite comment you made was so easily dismissed a couple of years ago. Several companies, BORL included, were responsible for the design of the APIs and many more will continue to evolve it as they move into the standardization process. It's a shame you aren't aware of that given you're investing in a company whose fortunes are now tied to the success of Java, or perhaps you think Delphi and DCOM are going to rule?
Let's take the Point of Sale Java API for retail application development (JPOS) as one example. Granted, Sun, IBM, NCR and other multi-national information technology companies were involved in the definition of these libraries, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The real driving force was Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penny, Home Depot and even tiny Wal-Mart. Let's stop the asinine characterizations and do our homework. Sun is miles ahead of Microsoft and you have to stop looking at this from your DOS perspective. That was a toy operating system which gaves rise to Windows. I don't think Windows is the pinnacle of success anymore than I think the Gameboy OS is. Anybody involved in this industry will have no excuse for missing the doubling and quadrupling of Sun stock and the halving of Microsoft's. I will leave it to those who do miss that boat to come up with their own self-descriptive terms.
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