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To: Kashish King who wrote (339)	11/28/1997 11:08:00 AM
From: odd lot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

As a user, I don't care how big the code base is (relates to another of your posts on a different forum). Anti-Microsoft zealots just don't understand how important Marketing is in determining the success of any product, be it software, toothpaste, etc. Marketing is the whole package--product, price, distribution and more. Although the term paradigm has been grossly overused lately, it fits here. The developers are hanging on to the old paradigm. Software has become a commodity.

To: Kashish King who wrote (339)	11/30/1997 7:59:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Understandably, Microsoft is only interested in developing technology that keeps customers firmly tied to Windows. Of course! What else would their purpose be other than to make money for the company? If you are one of those "Sun made Java for the benefit of everyone!" people, I feel sorry for you. Sun made Java for one reason and one reason only: to sell Sun servers. That's it. They lost the desktop and workstation market, and the only hope they have is to make people rely on Sun servers to provide the backbone to all networks. Sun is out to make money. That's it. Nothing else. If you think anything different, you're just one of the many Sun has duped in their new religion of Java. You may not realize this, but Java is not an open standard. Java is controlled by one company: Sun. Period. I'd love to hear how that is considered open. Until now, there were no viable alternatives, unless you count more of the same as an alternative. The alternative is Java-based platforms running Java applications constructed from Java components using Java tools on a variety of existing platforms, including a Java OS. Let me be crystal clear here. Java is an alternative now, if you have applications that are not performance-oriented or need multimedia, 3D-graphics capabilities or need to take advantage of specific hardware. Or you want to print. Or be able to run when the network is down. Or you have a laptop.