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To: i-node who wrote (4940)	5/26/2000 6:51:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

I would probably agree with those points but what's also different this time is the platform is server-centric so it's going full-circle back to the concept of terminals, only these terminals can execute code. Unlike C++, much more has been standardized within the language: threading, security, a component model with introspection, formalized run-time linkage, remote method calls, and so on. What I underestimated was the performance cost of all these features -- bytecode translation is not the performance bottleneck. Here's where Java is exploding: a replacement for 4GL forms which is probably most of the software out there. It's the least complex, relatively speaking, but the most customized and has the most people developing it. Most importantly, it is a sort of transport layer between backend databases and browsers: Java Server Pages rule, period. This is Inprise's greatest opportunity, ever. Not Delphi; not C++; Java. I think you're just underestimating the speed of adoption and scope of use for Java. You don't see development output for one, two or more years. Java is now the dominant technology, as I predicted. I first used it for remote, portable interfaces to wireless test equipment: the server end was Java but used JNI to interface with base station emulators, signal generators and such -- a lot of that still uses the old lab standard GPIB to communicate. This time, the environment is the corporate network, corporate internets and the the Internet -- I don't use the term intranet: it's a marketing term we didn't need.

To: i-node who wrote (4940)	5/26/2000 8:37:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 5102

Prediction: dominant force in dynamic content within one year: Java Server Pages hosted on IBM, BEA and maybe even Oracle and Inprise Application Servers. I think you are wasting your money going with high-end solutions until you can justify that with volume traffic. Inprise should build a MySQL based system for Linux and NT and sell it as the industry standard Dynamic Web Page Server. List all the standards that it is based on. Small business doesn't know what the hell an Application Server is. They could eat BEA's lunch with JBuilder as the keystone of an Small Business Application Server. They could but they do not have the marketing or business talent, never have. So they should build it anyway (that they can do) and sell it for a billion or so.