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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mozek who wrote (7577)	5/19/1998 12:18:00 AM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

JAVA Standard RE:"The misconception that Microsoft isn't innovative may have been your conclusion. Look at PC mag Java reviews ..." Your very well answered message is appreciated and probably does not deserve this response as I am only able to address the basics, but here goes: How long before we need to license JAVA from Microsoft rather than from SUN? Will we ever be able to write to JAVA and play to all other operating systems that license JAVA? Has there been any attempt by Microsoft to preempt the functionality of JAVA on its platform? Are any of these "innovations" really ways to defeat JAVA? Is Apple attempting to preempt JAVA? Will developers/consumers need to license Apple JAVA in order for foreign JAVA programs to run in the Mac environment? Dumb questions, I know, but there are allegations floating about and I totally lack technical perspective. HR