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To: Reely who wrote (9186)	12/16/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

>>No at all, one of the reasons I left Oracle after 12.5 yrs was the apparent blind rush to all things Java!!<< JAVA is a wonderful idea, but it has to be thought out extremely carefully to see if it works in real-life. Any time you detach the OS from the hardware, you're taking away performance. This is MSFT's assertion on why their JAVA is improved. The problem then is that there can not be a "real JAVA" unless everybody accepts the fact that their computers will only do a basic set of functions common to all. The more that gets watered down, the less one's computer might be able to do. I've seen to many high-end servers bought for the use of their special hardware characteristics. btw...were you a lone soldier as far as how you felt about JAVA, or where there other defections. **ALSO (to the thread). I am not trying to knock JAVA. It would be fantastic* to come out with a good working JAVA type software (even if it couldn't do 100% what it's theoretically supposed to do). My problem with it as an investor, is why invest in something that still needs a lot more proving of itself, doesn't have an established open standard committee, hasn't been widely accepted, and clearly is too being used between the grudge match of NcNealy/Ellison vs Gates. For me to invest in JAVA, I need to see that it's been tested out more rigorously....