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To: Chris McConnel who wrote (8945)	4/11/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: Scott McPeely	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Looks like Mr. McConnel gets the last laugh after being ridiculed by the Sun Java zealots. This is only a portion of a long article that is a must read: ncworldmag.com At least recognize the realities Here are two very bad ideas: 1.Java network computing or none at all 2.AS/400 network computing or none at all The latest Java announcement is that IBM is going to impregnate Sun (or vice versa, who cares),and that some time next year the child, named "Java OS for eBusiness" will be born. Well, that's just great! Meanwhile, during the next two years, while this latest new superbaby is cooking and learning to say "Da Da," what will Microsoft be doing? Unimpeded by the political burden of responsibility for making Java and the AS/400 essential components of the remote connectivity era, the Microsoft marketing juggernaut will be making lots of money, replacing lots of proven, stable, free, open standards (like X11 windows and protocol) with unproven, buggy, costly, proprietary standards (like Windows Terminal Server and T.share). Unlike the gamespoilers at Microsoft and Citrix, the funnymen at IBM and Sun are monkeying around with Java languages, Java operating systems, database hardware, and delusions of hopeless complexity. Instead of simply reinventing X11-enhanced network computing as Microsoft is doing, Sun and IBM are insanely pushing Java languages, Java operating systems, and AS/400s on us, making the whole NC panorama unnecessarily far more complicated and far less acceptable to the market than it would otherwise be. Microsoft may be an unashamed copier of the technology of others, but it knows dumb politics and impractical technological burdens when it sees them, unlike Sun and IBM. As the wicked witch of the west said as she was vaporized into harmlessness, "Oh, what a world!" It isn't just "bad" people who get smoked -- it's also those who are slow to learn and those who blindly follow them.