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To: Bear Dolbair who wrote (8354)3/15/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Regarding Network Computers' Dirty Little Secret, it seems I am not the only one who thinks IBM and Sun aren't particularly bright when the issue is deployment. What are they thinking, that Java-based NCs are so glaringly superior that they need only sit on their hands and watch them fly out the door? Here's a good one: IBM's eSuite editor doesn't have a spelling checker. Now we know what happened to all of those erstwhile East German bureaucrats, they're kicking back at IBM as team leaders on the eSuite development effort. That's inexcusable and those responsible should be canned immediately since they have no business being within 100 miles of an applications development effort.

Really though, what takes the cake in terms of their inability to see ten feet in front of them is the fact that IBM's Visual Age and Sun's Java Workstation are far behind the lowly PC tool vendors in terms of usability and value. They should be the best, period, and they should be free, period. If Microsoft succeeds with J++ 6.0 then you can say goodnight to smooth transition away from PCs to NCs. Microsoft knows how important it is to keep the software development community under the Windows banner and they will do whatever it takes to achieve that up to and including giving the damn stuff away. They will make their money back later a thousand times over. If Sun, IBM and Oracle are to knock out Windows (at it can be done quite easily as Gates is already aware) they need to cooperate and above all THINK!
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