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To: HammerHead who wrote (8647)	3/28/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

"SUNW should not give away JAVA control to monopoly Microsoft. Under the fair competition, MSFT may not win the leadership." I agree that Sun should not give up control of Java. They should make sure that the Java market is mature enough (with atleast 2 million developers) with tons and tons of APIs which are all an ISO standard. While they're making Java an ISO standard, I'd actually like them to develop applications to the standard. In my mind, Sun needs industry support till Java becomes a complete standard. Why should Sun give up Java? Will Microsoft give up Windows because 90% of the PCs and hence the world of PC computing uses it? Why doesn't anybody crib about paying up for Windows while they know it is essential to them everyday? HP cribs about paying exhorbitant licensing fees for personal Java - why are they keeping their stinking mouth shut while paying more and more for NT every year? F*&^%$@ double standard in the industry. Now that everybody realizes that Java is going to be the life blood tommorrow, they want it for free or rather don't want to pay Sun for developing it. I wish Sun competes on the application market too. Cheers, Babu