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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14621)	12/3/1997 2:56:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft cancels Java developer confab infoworld.com News on my second favorite topic, the Microsoft war on Java, with appropriate tie in to my favorite subject no less. One developer who had been invited to the Java Summit speculated that the controversy swirling around Microsoft, particularly the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case, may have been a factor in the cancellation. "On Friday, the judge could come down with decisions about the future of the course of the Microsoft-DOJ proceedings," said a developer who had been scheduled to go to the Java Summit. "That's a very big deal. Maybe something developed in some other venue that is a real hot spot that Microsoft needs to pay attention to." "After having gotten the attention of their hand-picked 'Java influentials,' then to drop the ball like this, it can't do very much for increasing the quality of the relationship" between the company and the Java community, the developer added. The plot thickens. Does the evil Gang of Five have some new dastardly trick up its sleeve? Or did the handpicked 'Java influentials' suddenly remember P.T. Barnum's dictum? Who can say? Cheers, Dan.