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To: Shane Stump who wrote (8188)	12/24/1997 10:46:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

Shane, I think you make three excellent (and correct) points. These big companies that can use thousands of NCs are the same ones running COBOL on mainframes. They may have a little "catching up" to do. I think they'd can the hardware in a second; but the investment in software (COBOL or whatever) is big, and gets bigger by the day. Rest assured, these companies that are spending millions on y2k remediation fully plan to get some mileage out of it. Microsoft has a sackful of money, and you just can't count them out. And most importantly, are we going to just trade MSFT's stranglehold on the Windows API for Sun's stranglehold on the JVM?

To: Shane Stump who wrote (8188)	12/24/1997 11:05:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

I am still betting that Microsoft will make C++ / Java indistinguishable and it will migrate its huge developer pool to its flavor of Java. That's a very bad bet because the class libraries and the language are both under the umbrella of an international standard. I can't stress this enough: the banks and IS departments other large corporate institutions are not going to accept proprietary implementations when there are open alternatives based on the same technology. They are about as displeased as one can get with Microsoft's foray into their business space as it is and proprietary languages aren't going to stand the test of an standards-based challenger. We haven't had that on the scale of Java up to now. Nobody views Java as a proprietary Sun product except Microsoft. Have you been keeeping up with the scope and volume of companies backing 100% pure Java? Microsoft doesn't migrate anybody as you suggest, it doesn't work that way with developers. They are entering IBM and Sun territory armed with technological water pistols and wheelbarrells full of money. The latter may buy them some wins, but in the long run they will have to adopt an open Java or be annihilated.