On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Thompson, Willard (GTICCC) wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2791052,00.html
This is stupid. Sun/Java is no worse off than if Sun hadn't sued
Microsoft. If they hadn't, Microsoft wouldn't have done Java right,
so it would've been working against Sun/Java anyway. Better Sun sue
than just sit back and take it. I don't think Java will die (as
others have said, it can be used server-side regardless), but to
achieve the prominence originally conceived, it will take a
combination of PR, and pressure from hardware vendors, software
developers, and end users to make things as easy/available as possible
-- inertia is a hard thing to battle, and Microsoft has the power to
make sure it is always on their side.
The guy does have a point that Sun/Java never quite delivered on some
of its promises though.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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