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To: danderso who wrote (9123)	12/15/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Dave, My response to an earlier post: >>- IBM employs the largest number of Java programmers<< Poor use of statistics (how many for instance?). IBM employees are supposed to be eating their own dogfood anyway(McNealy phrase). Probably IBM employees are the biggest users of IBM RISC (AIX) machines...so what??? >>- most Fortune 500 companies have serious Java projects<< Yes, and I've also heard of a lot of them dumping their projects because they did a poor design evaluation and realized afterwords that JAVA is TOO SLOW. >>As to risk, Java is only one element of the Oracle internet strategy.<< From previous postings, this seems to be true and I agree. I was trying to dig up info as to how much is Oracle dependent on JAVA for its future. joe