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To: XiaoYao who wrote (11400)	10/23/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: The Ox	Respond to of 64865

Be careful when you take parts of sentences. Many things appear different when viewed in segments. Just look at the movie promotions when they take one or 2 words from a review. Excellent as in: I expected to see an excellent movie and I was very disappointed. Just mentioning that one should view partial sentences with caution. Good luck, Michael

To: XiaoYao who wrote (11400)	10/23/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 64865

Xiao, I've got news for you. SUNW owns Java. Do you know what that means?? That means they can raise or lower the certification bar AT WILL. Yes, changing certification standards comes with the territory in the computer business. You write a driver. You expect it to pass muster. It fails because, while you were writing & testing it, the spec was revised. So you revise your driver to match the spec OR you blow off the OS vendor and try with someone else. If you are complaining the SUNW is unfair to poor, little MSFT, that's tough. SUNW has IP rights and 150 licensees to protect. Gee, I wonder why NONE of the other 150 licensees has a problem with the certification standards?? If you really think that SUNW violated their agreement w/MSFT, why didn't MSFT sue??? They are the ones trying to stop Java from becoming a standard.

To: XiaoYao who wrote (11400)	10/23/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: micromike	Respond to of 64865

--- In another e-mail Sun product manager Eric Chu wrote, "I believe we're in violation of the Microsoft contract," and in yet another, Chu wrote that, "if negotiation with Microsoft is not going well," Sun could "enhance" its certification tests to "invalidate" other versions of Java. How is Java going to be cross-platformable if you let a clown company like MS fragment it. You can argue the law up and down but at the end of the day if Java isn't cross platformable you have fragmented it. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that if MS loses control on the software developers and hardware suppliers they will lose the monopoly they presently have. Presently windoze gives MS control over the software developers and hardware suppliers but Java and the internet is about to change this. This could take longer if Sun doesn't win the suit and the DOJ doesn't kick some MS butt. Were did you say you wanted MS to take you to today. JMHO Mike