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To: David R who wrote (9240)	3/1/1998 12:44:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

Too bad Java is to slow for real-world telephony. David, do you pull these statements out of the air or what? The good news is you're wrong, again. Not only does it not make intuitive sense to anyone who understands the structure of a Java-based app, there's no practical foundation to that statement either. Motorola licensed Java technology precisely because it's designed to create intelligent mobile phones, pagers, process control, instrumentation, networking routers, networking switches and so on. In your expert opinion, what is the underlying technology in IBM's JavaPhone? Would you care to comment on Samsung's decision to base their WebVideoPhone on Java? Java compilers, chips, class libraries, protocols and other aspects of the technology were designed to interact with communications infrastructures from the ground up, not as an afterthought.

To: David R who wrote (9240)	3/1/1998 12:59:00 AM
From: Jerry Whlan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

Too bad Java is to slow for real-world telephony. "Telephony" is a pretty general term. I knew a guy almost two years ago at DSC who was working with CORBA and Java for some part of their switching management system. I think the Java part was pretty much on the user-interface side, probably using CORBA to talk back to the part that did all the real work.