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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (46000)	6/5/2000 5:39:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles - here's the big difference. I can write an application for the PC, using publicly available APIs, test it, and market it without ever referencing Microsoft. I can even say it runs under windows. If I want to put the "Designed for Windows" logo on the box, I have to submit the app to MSFT for testing - but I don't have to do that, and lots of people don't. This of course contributes to the problems many on the SUNW thread like to discuss - untested apps reduce reliability etc. - but that goes along with the "open" platform. I can develop hardware and drivers and ship those without talking to MSFT or the major OEMs. I'm not necessarily saying that is all goodness - it's not in the enterprise space - but it is open. I also have said, and I repeat, that SUNW keeping control of Java is also a good thing, and contributes to reliability and stability. They have every right to do that, as well as to control their brand and logo. But it ain't "Open" - it's just another proprietary standard, controlled by SUNW. The problem comes when SUNW makes a lot of noise about giving the control to a standards body or industry group and then backs away from what it would take to do that. They can't have it both ways - claiming an open product while controlling virtually everything about the product. I actually think they are doing the right thing with Java, I just wish they would quit pretending it is open - it confuses people like JC.