To: David R who wrote (7443 ) 11/18/1997 1:21:00 AM From: Kashish King Respond to
Use that dough for another homerun: APLX. These guys are going to have a strong Intranet product for Win95 and WinNT that runs on any NC or UNIX box and dovetails with their realtime business analysis tools, helpdesk, marketing support tools, et cetera. They just get it verus just hyping it. They don't need a java eSuite to be successful, that's going to be the icing on the cake if the across-the-board positive reviews are anything to go by. As I said before, business wants efficacy at a reasonable cost and thin-client will deliver with an effective set of office tools. It can be done. People can get more done in less time with better quality using smaller footprint, lower cost software. Does anybody really think that's too difficult? Companies like Applix have a wealth of experience PLUS 20/20 hindsight gained from watching where Microsoft went wrong, and they did go wrong in this latest crop of bloatware. It got bigger and fatter and harder to manage but what did they really achieve? Take a look at some C++ COM interface code and tell me that bytecode translation is really the problem with Java. It's garbage collection and security combined with few standard optimizations. That's all changing, Java and thin are in. I know there isn't anything I do on a day-to-day basis that I am not going to be able to do with the Applix suite once it is released. I use a couple pre-fab spreadsheets for tracking time; a couple pre-fab Access gizmos for bug tracking; and Word for simple reports. They may even replace my VISIO which I use for capturing my design work.
