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To: techreports who wrote (45015)	7/31/2001 1:33:43 AM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

Some one wrote that it would be like Apple and Microsoft using the unix kernel (unix is open), yet Apple and Microsoft provide a GUI and may other APIs which means software for Windows doesn't necessarily work for the MacOS. From what I have seen in the J2EE market, this is not at all how things play. There are really something like 4 different spheres of products - appservers, development tools, frameworks, and deployment tools. The first of these is currently strongly standards-based, i.e., the requirement is "write once, run anywhere". The second is a potentially great differentiator, but the results should still run anywhere. The third is the big differentiator that can potentially enable one company to develop an application far faster and better than a company who doesn't have this advantage ... but it should still run anywhere per the Java world. The last is an important, but oft neglected, category.