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To: uu who wrote (8340)	3/14/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't think we need to remind ourselves of OS/2 to realize that entire organizations of otherwise intelligent people can and do demonstrate abject stupidity and extreme myopia when it comes to deploying technology. This is the case with Sun and IBM and I'm afraid neither Scott McNeally nor Lou Gerstner have demonstrated anything which could even be mistaken for intelligence insofar as their handling of the Java browser situation. Maybe I'm wrong and they're just being arrogant sons of bitches, but I don't think so. The network is the computer and the computer is useless without clients. Sun and IBM should have made every effort early on to provide users with a free Java based browser (read: Sun or IBM should have bought Netscape) a long time ago. Now Microsoft has 50% of the browser and growing for the same reasons which made OS/2 a non-event: dumb-ass leadership. Page two. The dorkazoids (sp?) running Sun and IBM should have made every effort to leverage Windows as the best possible Java environment and not treat it as simply another Java platform. Whatever arrogance got in the way of that crashingly obvious strategy needs to be permanently shelved. Providing native Windows components to the 80% of machines that do run Windows would have made Java a screamer right out of the box without sacrificing one iota of portability. Now, if nobody at Sun knows how to achieve that without sacrificing portability then they should resign and take a job with Microsoft. WAKE UP SUN! IBM! CAN YOU SAY OS SLASH III? (A.K.A. JAVA)