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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ericneu who wrote (21164)	4/21/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: Darren DeNunzio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Regarding Java... Eric, if your are running a beta of 2000, then you are probably running IE5, these products where released prior to the decision by the court. Microsoft has 90 day to comply with the ruling, but is asking for more time to comply. The ruling: Sun originally sued Microsoft in late 1997 after it claimed Microsoft violated the terms of a licensing contract allowing Microsoft to develop programs in the Java programming language. Sun asserts Microsoft tried to corrupt the intent of Java to be a programming language that would suit all platforms and operating systems by writing Java programs that would work only for Windows. The ruling ordered Microsoft to stop billing its products as Java-compatible within 90 days. Microsoft, in its appeal, said it will comply with the ruling while challenging it. The results: Just months ago, Microsoft professed love for Java-the-language, but jeered at Java-the-platform. Now that a court ruling has forced Microsoft to adopt pure Java in its products. Sources said the company is dropping further development of Visual J++, which was updated last fall as part of Visual Studio 6, and is instead working on an alternate C++-like object development model tightly aligned with Windows 2000 and the forthcoming Component Object Model+ (COM+) environment. For its next generation of tools, however, Microsoft is building a Java-like development model, code-named COOL (C++ object oriented language), that brings COM+ support to C++ developers Nevertheless, if Microsoft loses its appeal with Sun, Java will no longer be supported by the software giant, and the stage will be set for the new COOL model to take its place. Will MIcrosoft be allowed to distribute an independently developed technology that performs "the same or similar functions" as Java. ? Indications are that they are moving away from the Sun version of Java; they've pulled Java from all products, including the core technologies. Can you say OUCH !