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To: Dr. J who wrote (2087)	1/8/1998 8:58:00 AM
From: carl griffith	Respond to of 3014

Spot on, Dr. J. EOM.

To: Dr. J who wrote (2087)	1/8/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3014

VB generates fat-client applications based almost exclusively on Microsoft's proprietary component architecture. By Microsoft's own count, there are some 400,000 active Java developers and let's hope you are right that most of them are C++ programmers (which greatly out number VB developers) versus 4GL or VB hackers. Sun puts the number closer to 750,000 to 1,000,000 Java developers. It's a question of momentum and the evidence is crystal clear that Microsoft is losing developers to Java and this year you will see that accelerate. Probably 99% of commercial applications for the desktop were written in C or C++ and probably 90% of new commercial applications will be written in C++. From 0% to 0.00001% will be written using a DAF language (dumb-ass forms) such as VB or that PowerRangers thing from Sybase. In the enterprise, Java will be the de facto standard and that will happen before the end of the year. So customers will build applications with Java and most of the off-the-shelf stuff will be in C++ for their particular platform. Having said that, commercial Java apps will dwarf commercial VB applications by the summer. That's hardly a vote of confidence for VB is it? How is it that Java will have a suite of commercially available enterprise applications while VB has nothing worth mentioning? Are you suggesting that's because Java is cool or is there more to it than that?