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To: Ed Yander who wrote (10928)	8/25/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

"....Boots Gosling was intervied at Infoworld. I thought I would add my comments in between closed brackets []. " thanks - lets us know what sections to skip.

To: Ed Yander who wrote (10928)	8/25/1998 8:24:00 AM
From: almaxel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Oh Boy, MSFT is admitting now that NT 5 is "Not There" and "Crap"! Customers should expect a just o.k. piece of software. computerworld.com Ralf

To: Ed Yander who wrote (10928)	8/27/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: William Sheppard	Respond to of 64865

Ed wrote: Gosling was intervied at Infoworld. I thought I would add my comments in between closed brackets []. [...] Gosling: The networks are a lot more sophisticated now. [In what way?] Jeesh, are you capable of intelligent thought? How about higher bandwidth, far more devices based on dozens of different platforms attached to the networks, new protocols, new services, more applications, more different types of infrastructure... [...] Gosling: It's not like there is one center; you can have as many centers as you want. None of these things are incompatible. [Except the clients which have varying hardware configs, system software revisions, network shell (browser)revs, device drivers, etc. Not exactly as simple and problem free as a green terminal multiuser host system eh?] If you had done any research you'd know that the Jini architecture allows a device to upload its own device driver to a central repository upon connecting to the network, after which other devices on the network wishing to use that device download the driver from the same server. This is the central tenet of Java and Jini - hiding the inherent complexity of today's networks and devices by the intelligent use of cross-platform software. [...] Gosling: We have believed in that kind of thing for a long time. [Yeah, for about a week now. LOL.] The announcement a few weeks ago wasn't open source for Solaris, it was free non-commercial binary use. Java source has been distributed for years.