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To: Claude who wrote (35110)	12/6/1999 2:01:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: EJB You're absolutely correct about SUNW's intentions here, but the industry is well aware of them and will prevent the formation of another monopoly. IBM, for example, is digging in its heels over EJB and I do not believe that SUNW has the power to bring the rest of the industry into line over EJB. It is simply too easy to clean-room one's way around the issue these days and SUNW will eventually be forced to turn everything over to ISO or some other real standards body to avoid the sort of Balkanization for Java which befell Unix before it. Beyond this, who is to say another university student won't write an "open source" version of Java at some point over the next decade ala Linus Torvalds and Linux? The "Jini" is already out of the bottle on this trend (so to speak). :)