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To: Kashish King who wrote (9630)	3/29/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Scott McPeely	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

No, the failure rate of software projects cannot be blamed on Bill Gates because why would so many companies be dumping Unix in favor of NT if the Unix hardware vendors were delivering the goods? The real issue here is two entirely different philosophies, Unix and Javabeans being programmer centric versus Windows and COM+ being user centric. Custom programming versus shrink wrap. Most programmers like the big bucks they can make by delivering custom solutions. A hetergenous environment is ideal for this. So its no suprise programmers love Java. The Java philosophy promotes either big IS departments (for programmers who want a life) or lucrative custom programming because the application needs to be ported, optimized, etc. because of the inability of "open standards" to achieve 100% compatability. The problem of open standard bodies is there is always ambiguity in the specifications, the process is too slow, and functionality is compromised because of politics. This has paralyzed Unix, Corba, etc. The open HTML standards haven't prevented Microsoft from dominating browsers because there are incompatabilites between Navigator and Explorer and content developers can't support a whole bunch of incompatible browsers. Java is a nice language but as Stroustrup says, its more of a social phenomenon rooted in anti-Microsoft rhetoric than anything else.