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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (343)	11/30/1997 9:13:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Microsoft's COM model is anything but performance oriented which has a lot to do with the complaints about recent Microsoft product releases. The reason these comparisons don't involve Visual Basic should be rather obivous, too. Pershaps you should give a little more consideration to Intel's support for this effort and their 3D, audio, video and animation libraries. There is no reason whatsoever that every platform can have platform specific drivers to optimize the otherwise portable applications written in Java. Moreoever, there isn't any reason why Java can't be compiled into native code, period. If you think about that you will see that you loose nothing over existing languages and gain a great deal. The performance issues are there as a result of prime directive being, the prime directive, period. As you will see, Intel and others are tackling the lesser problems of performance as we speak. The point that you did get out of the tied to Windows comment was that we all have to suffer with whatever home-grown hairball Microsoft decides to give us, and it is truly a horrible mess. BTW, it looks as though Sun developed Java to make Intel, IBM and about a million developers (or soon to be a million) rich. Don't worry, Microsoft isn't going anywhere and neither is their tragic component model. They are simply going to fall back to the yet-another-software-vendor category of companies. What impact do you think eSuite is going to have on Microsoft? I think you had better wake up and smell the coffee dude.