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To: Ed Yander who wrote (10954)	8/27/1998 12:59:00 AM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

"..According to this editorial, Java is pretty much useless.." Ed...you mystify me. how you can post an article from the Java Developers Journal and summarize it as saying that Java is useless shows you need to get better sources or get back to rewriting some spin on NT 5.0 - your man Jim Allchin was playing the stuttering idiot on stage a couple days ago trying to backtrack on NT. Where's chairman Bill when you need him?

To: Ed Yander who wrote (10954)	8/27/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

<< So what do we do? It's really pretty simple. We need to put Java where it belongs. It's not the only tool we have, and we must have good reasons for selecting it over other languages and products. >> Couldn't be said better. Java is a GREAT tool, but it's just a tool. A tribute to Java's success is that this has to be said at all. You'll never hear anyone (intelligent) say, "We need to convert everything to Visual C++ on NT". Java is really, really useful. I write networked apps now that I run on several flavors of UNIX and under Windows, even on totally different hardware architectures, all without even a recompile. That is definitely a useful tool. It's a shame that people who want to say that "Java is useless" have to back all the way up to the point of saying, "Well, it won't solve all your computing problems." Good grief. Mike