Cheryl, I'm not necessarily completely dissing Java. What I am saying is that the DOJ shouldn't be the one to decide which OS environment is better. If you read the DOJ complaint, you see that they clearly believe in the promise of JAVA as a "silver bullet" which can penetrate the Microsoft market share. Therefore, the DOJ for some reason has decided it is their role to step in and handicap Microsoft (see DOJ request for MSFT to completely hide all signs of their OS), and at the same time give NSCP a hand UP (see DOJ request that MSFT ship Win98 with NSCP/Java browser).
It's all too much, and too ludicrous.
re in the article So you can download a word processing applet or a mail applet or a calendar applet and let people get their jobs done.
Like I've been saying ad infinitum: Many people's jobs require sofware that does more than word processing, mail, and calendar.
For examples:
Has Java begun to address the needs of the CAD market? Any plans in place?
How about accounting needs? A/P, A/R, G/L, payroll, inventory, order entry?
Selections of Java accounting for vertical markets such as construction and property management? Small biz, medium biz, big business?
Java programs for banking? (not the client end, the bank's business end)
Java programs to do construction estimating?
Java programs for human resources, income tax preparation?
Perhaps you begin to see my point. For the DOJ to claim that if it weren't for Microsoft's "anti-competitive" tactics, Netscape/Java would have been the next great thing.....well it's just plain ludicrous to say that, and particularly ludicrous for the government to be saying that. |
