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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (9225)	2/28/1998 1:51:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

When you think of Java think Picabo Street. When you think of ActiveX think Sonny Bonno. Ditto for TAPI versus Java class libraries. One of the explosive growth areas for Java is now Computer Telephony and it would be interesting to see Borland get out of this office-only approach to Java and move into an area like that with a... with a [GAG! COUGH!] with another acquisition! A true story I read about: Recently, we upgraded our call control center software for NT which supports two CT [Computer Telephony] interfaces: TAPI and Java. Since the vendor's core platform is NT, support for TAPI was a given. ==================== We purchased an NT server and completely reconfigured our LAN to use Windows NT domain system. We didn't really want to spend a whole week messing with that but we did. We installed TAPI drivers on both the server and each client and properly configured each one followed by TAPI compatible software. After all that, we were able to get screen popups from our system when incoming calls arrived. To do anything else, we would have to purchase more software. ===================== We then decided to install the Java interface instead. We pointed our browser at the vendor's website and clicked on the Java call-control applet. That's it. We had call screening, call parking, multiple call hold and receive, conferencing and more. ====================== The difference is this little thing called distributed computing and anybody who has ever messed with the TAPI SDK (I have) knows that its a procedural hairball like the rest of Microsoft's half-baked spamcakes.