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To: gordon who wrote (5430)	11/11/1997 10:03:00 AM
From: pragat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Gordon and all: True the survey needs to be more objective. It should also consider executives and business managers that pay the bill: those huge $$$ year after year for administering and managing systems (and upgrades). Remember IT is a strategic issue. It's just not a programmers issue. People have to deal with legacy and mission critical systems. Businesses are converging (M&A). How do you make the inherited code work with your systems ? IT dollars (along with related labor costs) are going to be watched closely. Remember we live in a very profit-centric society. Nobody wants additional taxes, and everyone wants the product faster, better, and cheaper. From the Government side, the Cohen-Clinger act, and Raines guidelines are truly steps in the right direction: managing IT as investments. The business issues are going to propel JAVA. Technical issues will be worked out over time. As SUN indicated, JDK 1.2 has more robust security and performance. The language is maturing. There are big guns behind the movement. There're significant investments already made to insure its success. Forward thinking folks such as George Gilder and the likes are supporting the movement. The emergence of thin client computing to leverage the bandwidth improvements and hardware price/performance, and the movement of computing to more consumer-centric and affordable devices make the case for JAVA even more compelling. The bottomline, the JAVA phenomenon is here to stay. The likely scenario is everyone that plays will win. Because, the playing field is level. Hopefully, people take advantage of "right once run anywhere" and object-oriented principles (reuse in particular) to reduce cost, improve quality, productivity, and interoperability.