Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: dybdahl who wrote (63121)	11/17/2001 8:44:06 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: ECMA Interesting view but apparently the reason SUNW yanked its ECMA submission of Java was precisely because ECMA standardization would have lead to SUNW's loss of control of Java. To claim that ECMA could take control of Java away from SUNW but will somehow be unable to take C# control away from MSFT seems inconsistent. Especially since MSFT's intent with their joint ECMA submission is to turn over control of C# and make it a true standard. The real difference between C# and Java is that MSFT regards both as simply programming languages while SUNW has always tried to make Java a proprietary platform so it could substitute a SUNW-controlled platform monopoly for what it perceives to be a MSFT-controlled platform monopoly (Windows). The key difference between the approaches is one of pretense. MSFT doesn't pretend that its platform isn't a MSFT owned-and-controlled product while SUNW never tires of championing Java as "open" while at the same time keeping as tight control on it as possible.