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To: Fred Ayres who wrote (6104)	12/10/1997 8:21:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"We're also skeptical about the quality of a product that they seem to have developed so quickly." You don't usually see people criticising products or ideas without facts. Such a childish response shows that Microsoft is actually growing desperate without a java strategy. I'm beginning to think that we're moving from a world of Microsoft monopoly into a world of Sun monopoly but with the difference that nobody actually realizes it. You won't see Sun forcing customers and resellers like Microsoft does but all the enabling technologies will come from Sun? Shine on SUN.

To: Fred Ayres who wrote (6104)	12/10/1997 8:27:00 PM
From: Alok Sinha	Respond to of 64865

The MSFT response certainly sounds defensive. The way I understood the Activator announcement, it comes into play only if non-100% Java compatible features of the IE (i.e, related to JDK 1.1) or Netscape Navigator are encountered. It does nothing to hamper the fast implementation of Virtual Machine on Win 32. The more technically literate folks on this thread are requested to shed light on this. The "Activator" fix (because that is what it essentially is) for less than pure Java applications seems like a technology solution to ensure the loyalty of the developers. I was surprised also that they were able to come up with something so quickly. The courts will determine how much flexiblity software and operating systems vendors have in re-defining (or fragmenting) SUNW Java vision of Write Once / Run Everywhere. Regards