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To: Kashish King who wrote (3275)	8/24/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5102

The FRTE acquisition by Sun may jolt Inprise to rethink any offers that are still on the table. I really think Rational is a likely candidate for a stock swap deal. Inprise is now trading below book and that's really got to be ticking them off. A merge with Rational (Nasdaq: RATL) would make sense, but "making sense" could be a liability when trying to deal with INPR management. The FRTE aquisition doesn't mean that INPR is off Sun's table but any overlap has lost its value. I'm fairly certain of one thing: these ex-Apple salesmen aren't going to turn this thing around. No way, no how.

To: Kashish King who wrote (3275)	8/24/1999 10:03:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

OK, you have given out BS on this one too many times to ignore. Ooooohhhh. Now he's po'ed. I think we've discussed this before, but you have a very shallow understanding of C and C++ so how do you expect me to actually take you seriously when it comes to contrasting it with Java? With all due respect, I was cranking out everything from FORTRAN to ALC when you were in training pants, and C from the time it was first available on the PDP/11 -- a time when K&R was the ONLY C reference in existence... Nobody ever said Java was going to take over in months, certainly I never said that, ever. That is why you can't post a link to back it up Rod Macpherson, March 9, 1997, 4:46PM (on the Borland thread): Prediction: Sun's Java OS will be the dominant platform in 2 years as developers realize that most of their efforts can be cross-platform with more and better (and more reliable) components than ever before. At the same time they will sacrifice little as underlying Java engines take full advantage of the most popular native platforms, to wit, Windows. Well, okay, 24 months... I suspect if I spent a few minutes I could dig out 20 or more similar posts with predictions that were just as absurd... Outside of C++, nothing in the history of this industry has caught on as fast or as ubiquitously as Java and Java-based technologies. Some would argue that nothing has been as HYPED as Java; but I would hasten to add that the 40-year old language COBOL continues to be in heavier use than Java is, even today. While Java has found a niche (as I stated I believed it would, also 2 years ago), it continues to lack the basic support of a general-purpose development platform. I've never argued that Java might not come along, but today, as it was 2 years ago, Java is still immature and impractical for the great majority of commercial systems development.