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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (10612)	7/22/1998 5:56:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

cheryl: you got it. MSFT is very vulnerable (irrespective of past accomplishments). They are now competing with pure knowledge horsepower unnlike any battle they have had before. If we truly live in the Golden Age of knowledge, it is very easy to see who the winner will be. If on the other hand, we live in the era of marketing BS, then knowledgeable information workers will all have to suffer. This isn't religious, it is the collision of two business philosophies, i.e. knowlege-based versus bullshit-based. Neither can escape the momentum of the business practices they have endeared themselves to. It is not religious it is philosophical and it is very important. For if we truly are in the era of pure marketing with little regard for quality our technological progress will most definitely be constrained in the future. I tend to believe the "efficient" knowledge-based philosophy will ultimately prevail.

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (10612)	7/22/1998 7:47:00 PM
From: Scott McPealy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"Java is not a step forward in computer science at all. Almost every feature in Java is ancient history in computer science, and those few that are not ancient history are fairly obvious extensions to common ideas (sometimes bad ones). Java may arguably be a step forward in commercial programming practice, since it has introduced important concepts and tools to a lot of practicing but uneducated programmers who might otherwise never have seen them. I'm referring here to dynamic typing, automatic storage management, multi-threading and similar features." azstarnet.com