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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (44904)	7/25/2001 11:43:16 AM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Is he using different words to say essentially the same thing you're saying about component software becoming more important in the future and thus leading to a royalty game? Mostly. My contention isn't limited to the effort to build a component market, however, which may or may not actually occur to a significant degree. My observation is that there is an orientation toward standards in the Java market generally, including whole packages and even in-house custom software. Some of this, I suppose, comes from the semi-religious orientation of Java fans (write once, run anywhere, or else), but I would guess that it also comes from writing to use the proprietary features of pre-J2EE appservers only to have the vendor go out of business or the appserver fail to scale so that an expensive re-write was required to switch.