Sure, Keith. Stop being naive about what? Sun's got it's agenda, but it doesn't have any massive installed base to leverage off of. Nobody's going around calling Sun a monopoly that I know of. Who has Sun tried to kill by giving away anything lately?
I have no idea what you're talking about bloat with Javastations. Maybe it makes sense to put 64 meg in them, if they don't have disks and memory is cheap. That's not bloat like my NT4 (workstation) machine which seems to always drift monotonicly up to 50meg swap space used, with nothing running, and seems memory starved at 32 meg. With a disk. Of course, the code base is only doubling in size going to NT5, so that'll be much better, whenever it ships.
And, nobody around here has been claiming that Sun will inevitably rule the world, and will leverage its dominance inexorably into all areas of our life. Do you think they will? What do they dominate now? With Microsoft, the only time there's any mention of competition is when antitrust comes up. In that context, of course, Windows could be replaced in a day! Bill said so himself, it must be the TRUTH.
Cheers, Dan. |
