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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (44916)	7/25/2001 1:08:40 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

Thomas, 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. That makes a lot of sense to me. It's typical of the relatively early-market scenarios. It's also a fear of those problems you mention upon which a leading candidate for Gorillaship or a Gorilla can capitalize. My observation is that in-house software is not necessarily a good solution to the problems you mentioned because all too often they create the problems you mentioned in addition to problems you didn't mention. But perhaps that's my bias as an investor in companies that produce software, considering that in-house software never benefits me personally. :) --Mike Buckley