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To: HammerHead who wrote (8728)	4/1/1998 3:25:00 AM
From: HammerHead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Asian Economic Woes Not Hurting SunMicrosys - Co Exec Will this spur a rally today?

To: HammerHead who wrote (8728)	4/1/1998 3:54:00 AM
From: Kal	Respond to of 64865

> A Java truce could lead to an XML war > > April 1, 1998 > > > InfoWorld : As spring approaches, the ongoing cold war between > the proponents of Java and the folks in Redmond, Wash., is showing signs of thawing. > Driving that process is a realization within Microsoft that there's not much it can do at this > point to halt Java's momentum. In fact, the biggest story at last week's JavaOne conference > was the sheer number of developers who showed up. For the first time, the attendance at a > Java conference easily rivaled attendance at any Microsoft Professional Developer's > Conference. > > Until the release date for NT 5.0 started slipping, Microsoft had hoped to establish the > Distributed Component Object Model and the Microsoft Transaction Server as de facto > standards before Enterprise JavaBeans architectures could take hold. That doesn't seem > likely anymore. That's why Microsoft, as noted in Page One articles this week by Niall > McKay and Jeff Walsh, needs to take a more conciliatory approach toward Enterprise Java > in the form of alliances with middleware companies. > > But that's only a short-term strategy borne out of necessity. IT managers can expect to see > Microsoft promote the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the great new cure for > everything that ails the Web and the industry as whole. > > No, Microsoft hasn't suddenly seen the open standards light. It's just that Redmond would > rather rally behind any standard but Java. > > This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Java has enough momentum to carry it forward, and XML, > as a context-rich, data-neutral file format, is probably the most important new technology > development of the last two years. The key task for customers will be to throw their weight > behind the developing World Wide Web Consortium specifications for XML in order to > prevent any vendor from deploying de facto extensions that would undermine the real value > of XML. > > So the question is, are IT managers willing to be proactive about influencing the guidance > of new XML data formats, or are they going to sit back and let the same haphazard process > that clouded the development of HTML, Java, and a host of other technologies continue to > rule the day? > > Write to me at michael_vizard@infoworld.com. > > [Copyright 1998, InfoWorld]