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To: Kashish King who wrote (8190)	12/24/1997 2:14:00 PM
From: Shane Stump	Respond to of 10836

You skipped the first two points on the corporate money trail. I follow the Java trail based on what my corporate sponsers are willing to pay for (and Java hasn't been mentioned much). You seem to have had a bitter relationship with Microsoft. I have done OEM work for both Microsoft and IBM... Microsoft is much easier to work with. Microsoft treats their third-party developers very well (IBM doesn't); on the otherhand, the IBM support I get for my ThinkPads is fabulous. Another case and point: I have done a little work with some large insurance companies. Earlier this year I attended a meeting where the industry standard board was discussing objects and how they were going to use a non-company based distribution technology. The next meeting everything was being discussed and implemented in COM. You can argue technology and what is better all you want, but you will make a lot more $$$$ if you listen to what the person with the checkbook is saying (and it isn't always what you want to hear or what is technologically best). Happy Holidays, Shane

To: Kashish King who wrote (8190)	12/24/1997 6:15:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

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. Crap. They've been accepting it for years; I doubt they're going to get too excited about it now. Particularly until the "open" alternatives become robust enough to cut the mustard. And I don't think anyone is really sure how "open" the "open alternatives" are going to be. but in the long run they will have to adopt an open Java or be annihilated. You may be right; but history does not reflect it to be the case. This war isn't over; Microsoft may yet win Java. Further, they've got everyone feeling sorry for them over this browser crap now.