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To: Fred Ayres who wrote (5278)	10/31/1997 6:00:00 PM
From: Homer	Respond to of 64865

JAVA IS HOT ENOUGH TO BURN BILL GATES Now, with trustbusters having filed a petition on Oct. 22 claiming Microsoft has violated that consent decree, one can't help but wonder: What will stall the software titan? EQUAL ACCESS. As it turns out, corporations--those very customers that have propelled Microsoft Corp. by buying Windows and office applications--are starting to deal the company a blow by turning to Java, the programming language pioneered by Sun Microsystems Inc. Thanks to Java's potential to make computing much easier by creating programs that are written once and then run on many operating systems--not just on Microsoft's Windows software--the technology is starting to get a head of steam inside corporations. According to market researcher Zona Research Inc., a survey of 279 companies revealed that half use Java and that the rest plan to within a year. By 2000, Zona estimates, 97% of all corporations will have Java applications whizzing through their enterprises. Business week businessweek.com Indeed, Java is becoming a kind of high-tech glue that makes it possible for companies to take advantage of the Net era without having to give up all their old mainframe and minicomputer software systems. Thanks Fred