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To: The Ox who wrote (10805)	8/10/1998 8:04:00 PM
From: Fortinwit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Blanket statements like "JAVA hasn't lived up to expectations" are so easy to make. Find someone who works at Sun. Ask them "has Java lived up to your expectations?" Since Sun has put a HUGE amount of effort/$$$ into getting Sun to "run on Sun" these are the people who could give you a candid assessment (assuming you don't ask a Java developer) of what "Java" life is like. On the other hand, the article did make the comparison between Apple and Sun, and it came to the conclusion (IMO) that Apple is NOT Sun, that they are taking definitive steps, at least in the middleware area (and also at the server level, where I think the article is wrong) and are actively carving their place in the future... whereas Apple rested on their laurels quite a bit. MSFT has already won the desktop war. They own the O/S and they own the apps. I'm amazed that in the 4 years since I've last worked in a world where PCs dominated the desktop arena just how far MSFT has penetrated. However, it will be some time (NT6?) until MSFT can compete at the server level... F.