Hello Bill,
Scott, It will take some time, and of course MSFT is on the
warpath to kill JAVA,, and will make it hard for any threat to
run.
Yep ... Bill & Company understand that Java and CORBA are the first time that anyone has actually designed something, and even delivered a working prototype, that "out abstracts" Microsoft! Microsoft is the king of abstraction, developing APIs and services at higher levels that render the underlying product or technology irrelevant. And then they give away the underlying service.
In theory IBM could make a java intense Warp? that would do this.
I know they have legions of programmers in India and Pakistan hard at
work on these and other problems. They might be grooming a candidate
and this browser war with the DOJ and MSFT might just give them their
windowm of opportunity.
In my research and analysis in this area, I have found that I no longer believe that the OS will have anything to do with "winning" this Java vs. Windows war. In order for Java and CORBA to "win" and be a success (even if they just run on Windows) they must attain to primary goals:
1. They must provide the same applications, and office productivity applications, that we are used to running today. All of the functionality that is critical for day to day productivity must be there. It doesn't matter which OS, it's the applications that are key! This is what Netscape and IBM are working on ... Java applications.
2. The second primary goal *must* be the compatibility with legacy data. Since corporations have huge amounts of existing data, in files *and* databases, they must be able to access that data from these new applications. That is why you see so much work to get JDBC and other database connectivity technologies out.
If other vendors (Sun, Netscape, IBM) are able to attain these two goals, then it doesn't matter what OS the customer runs ... and now the customer regains the power to force OS vendors to stay competitive and deliver the best products.
I have heard from the APple crowd that theur new Rhapsody GUI will
run on 86X platforms, but have seen little about it on any thread(even AAPL)
I don't know much about the product, but it would be a smart thing to have the optimized JVM to be ready to catch, and run, all the Java apps being created by Netscape and IBM and Sun .. ;-)
> Bill
Scott C. Lemon |
