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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22689)2/16/1999 12:23:00 AM
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The whole point of Microsoft's interest in Java was to destroy the cross platform capabilities. They didn't succeed, but I fail to see how offering an alternative language does anything to Java's cross platform capabilities. Their only hope is to basically make it not worth your while to do cross platform programming. But that is done by eliminating other OS'es, not by offering another language. So Cool don't matter. Visual Basic is already a very cool programming language that is superior to Java in several ways, but it hasn't stopped Java's popularity.

Java in some ways is like Linux. It *offers* something that Microsoft can't offer without destroying itself, which makes it hard for Microsoft to directly challenge. With Linux, it's the cost, with Java it's the cross platform capabilities.
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