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To: Homer who wrote (8467)	3/23/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: Scott McPeely	Read Replies (2) of 64865

It looks like Java advocacy is not even do well in its own forum: ******************************************************************* >>Now the other shoe drops: The Sun JavaStation will have a Citrix >>client built in. Reality seems to be settling in, and the vendors >>are finally realizing that Java-and-only-Java is not commercially >>viable. >> >>http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980322S0003 > >I thought this was always a planned feature of the NC. Citrix was >being discussed vis-a-vis NC's for over a year now. What's the big >deal? Citrix is an licensable protocol that can be easily implemented >in Java. Why _wouldn't_ an NC OS vendor want to support Citrix if >there target market were customers needing to support legacy Windows >apps? But not for the Sun JavaStation. That was going to be a Java-and-only-Java platform which was going to run the gushing fountain of Java apps which were going to have appeared by now. You weren't going to need any Windows apps. The gush didn't happen (and there's no sign of it -- more like a trickle)and as I said reality is setting in. And this then puts the JavaStation and other Java-based NCs into exactly the same position that OS/2 2.1 was in when WinOS/2 was added: If OS/2 can run Win16 programs, then why would any vendor want to write a native app for OS/2? *******************************************************************

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