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To: shane forbes who wrote (7528)	11/18/1997 10:42:00 PM
From: Bill Tucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

Shane. A few weeks back you posted a very interesting snippet on Spectre being developed in Australia. How do you see its potential in all these new developments??

To: shane forbes who wrote (7528)	11/19/1997 1:31:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

Although the Enterprise is shifting toward NT, they will need CORBA to leverage legacy data and software in modern applications. DCOM isn't available on anything but Windows NT and it's difficult to make a rational argument for developing anything with it in the face of a portable standard. Those who use modern, object-oriented languages cannot tolerate COM technology because it's so clearly geared toward Visual Basic. Once you have pointed and clicked your non-reusable, non-shareable GUI objects in Visual Basic, you are right back in BASIC. Java is a superior alternative and Microsoft's ceaseless, multi-million dollar campaign to down-play Java isn't working. NOISE's multi-million dollar campaign to promote it, combined with actual results, got in the way. For those who haven't heard of NOISE, it's just shorthand for Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and Ed's Brake and Muffler. This group, perhaps with the exception of EBM, know that Java is their key to bypassing the proprietary Windows APIs on Windows. Actually, Once they have floated applications to the top, they can push users onto alternative platforms with ease. BTW Borland, why don't you develop a core set of C++ business widgets that have precise counterparts in Java but based on the underlying standards on each: MFC and JDK, respectively. As much as Microsoft doesn't have an edit control that does right justification, or a usable grid control for C++ developers, neither do you, Borland. I am not talking about the cheezy third party hacks we have now, but standard business widgets as PURE C++ or PURE Java classes.