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To: Sriram who wrote (8515)	3/24/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Will people stop using IE or a java product from msft, just because it will not say java compatible? I think the real question is whether corporations and governments will wish to use an grossly inferior component technology and the answer to that question is an emphatic no. Microsoft simply hasn't ever delivered any core technology of its own and that's not about to change with the decade-old hack-job they call ActiveX. The johnny-come-lately, me-too attempts to modernize Visual Basic are simply shoddy Windows dressing. Speaking of shoddy, the brittle, unsecure, incoherent morass they call a component technology is what has them looking over their shoulder in the first place. We wouldn't even be talking about this if Java wasn't monumentally superior to Microsoft's warmed-over DOS hack. 1. Java is vastly superior to Visual Basic. 2. Java Beans are vastly superior to ActiveX. 3. Enterprise Java Beans are vastly superior to Distributed COM. Finally, to answer your question: yes people will stop using Microsoft products that aren't Java compatible because large corporations and governments will demand standards-based technology and specifically Java, Java Beans and Enterprise Java Beans.

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