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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18244)	3/27/1998 12:16:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Sun Finds No Joy In Microsoft's Java Moves techweb.com Sun Microsystems co-founder and vice president of research Bill Joy said "nobody is fooled" by Microsoft's Visual J ++ language or what he called Microsoft's "Java maneuvers." Hey! I said that, but I wouldn't expect to find much consent on the other side on that one. "Once you have written your application in Java, even if you wrote it with their [Microsoft's] new platform-dependent classes, porting it to platform-independent classes is that much smaller of a step," said Joy. "I think Microsoft is damned if they do and damned if they don't. It's a slippery slope toward platform independence, which customers clearly want. It's clearly an enormous benefit for our industry." Enormous benefit? I hope so, but certainly a threat to the proprietary lock aka monopolistic death grip. Dang that other Bill, stealing my lines without credit. I'll sue! Cheers, Dan.