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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (9965)	5/28/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Dwight, The problem has never been IE not being compatible with applications. Look back a couple months in PC mag where IE was actually compatible with more applets and applications than any other Java VM in third party tests. It also happened to be the fastest. Jeez, Dwight... someone named "mozek" talking about "PC mag" sometime in the past that compared a Java vm with unnamed "applets & applications" using "third party tests" doesn't sound like reliable compatibility results to me. Besides, your quoted source doesn't state that the Java vm in question is compatible with SUNW standards, only that it is more compatible with other applets, whose applets those are, we don't know. I hate to disappoint you, but it doesn't matter which "third party" it was who designed the compatibility tests, if they aren't SUNW's tests, they don't count. The majority of Java developers, as witnessed during the JavaOne conference last March in SF, are on board with 100% pure Java. MSFT's Java conference drew only a pitiful 200-250 programmers. If MSFT wants to design & develop their own web application platform, they should do so & attempt to sell it to their Windows customers, but they're not going to piggy-back on SUNW's technology & get away with it unless they pass the SUNW compatibility tests, plain & simple.