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

To: mozek who wrote (8473)	6/16/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: LKO	Respond to of 74651

Actually Cheryl, Microsoft is the leader in language runtime technologies, much to Sun's chagrin. There are many other areas where Microsoft is a leader, but an argument will be pointless. Microsoft does produce good languages, runtimes, etc. which work well. Some of us who are Sun shareholders too don't understand why it wants to call them "Java" and then modify it from what is called Java on other platforms. What has us amazed why doesn't it call its amazing languages anything-but-competitor-managed-brandname (such as use the name J++, after all it is as good/bad a name as C++). It could even design its own better-than-Java language from scratch and name it from scratch. Until that happens, there is cloud on this claim of "leadership". Leaders don't get sued for bait-and-switch on a competitors brandname (regradless of what the judges/juries interpret in the contract fine print).