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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (232)	11/10/1997 4:16:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1600

>Why is Java the future? Because it's internet-centric, not desktop-centric. Developers are starting to develop applications for the net. >Because people are blindly following it becase it is >"Not-MS". Sun has done a masterful job at coming up with a way to sell their >technology - position it as the "Microsoft alternative", and have all the anti-MS >people jump on it. I think you are wrong here. Yes, it's true that people would like an alternative to Microsoft. Microsoft is so big that corporations, who are afraid of having their critical business functions and products so uttlerly dependent on one supplier, are afraid of it. But the more important point about Java is that it promises "write one -- run anywhere." For businesses, that means no having to junk millions of dollars in investments in order to have networks that run together. It means that businesses can communicate with suppliers and customers, without having to worry about what OS they are running. Java has big advantages for businesses in efficiency and cost savings. If it didn't exist, someone would have to invent it. >In what way does Java threaten Microsoft? If it doesn't, then why doesn't Microsoft stop trying to destroy it (the platform, I mean -- I'll take them at their word that they "love Java the language"). What are they afraid of? >1) Java still has to have an underlying OS to operate the computer. Which OS will >run Java the fastest? Right now it is Windows95/NT. What will it be in ten years? Five? >2) People haven't discarded their DOS apps yet. What makes you think 150 million >users are going to suddenly switch over and use Java apps? They won't do it right away, but they will do it because it will make their lives easier. >3) Why do you think Micosoft cannot produce the most successful Java >applications available? When did I ever say I thought they couldn't? What I do believe is that they won't. They are much too interested in Preserving The Windows Monopoly. Which will be their undoing in the long run. For Microosft, Windows is a crutch. They should turn it over to an independent standards body before somebody (but not DOJ the way things are going) takes it away from them and hits them over the head with it. Hey, don't believe me. Read what the consultants and analysts are starting to say: wired.com "Microsoft has had an opportunity to play by the new Internet rules - come up with its own version of Java, run with it, and grow with the Internet," Robb says. "But they've opted not to do that - they've locked down instead, while they still have control of the OS. It's good for them in the short run, but in the long run it's going to destroy them." After all, if an analyst says it, it must be right.;)