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To: dmf who wrote (6812)	1/15/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: David W. Taylor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

OK, here is my situation. I have a "day" job as a developer at a independent software development company in Novato, CA. This pays my bills. At night as a hobby I am developing an application that is very heavily GUI oriented. At the moment I use a combination of C++ and Visual Basic to develop this software. The software was started over 18 months ago and Java was simply not an option. I have chosen to target NT 4.0 as the "target platform." By this I mean that users must be using NT 4.0 (Intel). Notice that I need to create the actual GUI. It seems clear to me that this an ideal situation for the use of Java. The benefits of this would be: no longer tied to a specific "platform", better object-orientation of the design, far better maintainability. Do any of Sun's latest offerings sound like something I could use? I would love to be able to sit down to a running box and start developing a Java Bean-based application. Do these new machines come with everything installed? I would need OS, development tools, network connection and so on. What is a realistic cost for such a beast? I know virtually zero about Solaris and only a little about Unix. Currently the machine I use to develop on is a Pentium II with 64mb RAM running NT workstation 4.0. It has a 20" Sony screen, fast 4mb graphics card and huge IDE (6.4gb) hard drive and 24x CD. With Visual Basic and Visual C++ and MS Office installed it cost me around $5,000 to put together myself last June. Thanks.