[1172] in java-interest
Re: The future of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Barton)
Fri Aug 25 11:06:15 1995
To: Glen.Perkins@NativeGuide.com (Glen C. Perkins)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:09:00 +0700.
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 08:08:52 -0400
From: John Barton <jjb@watson.ibm.com>
Glen writes:
[moaning deleted]
>I guess one thing that makes me nervous is that I don't understand how Sun
>intends to make money from Java. If they don't know either, then it's
>unlikely that they will go to a lot of effort to push it which will
>handicap it in the market. I can imagine that Microsoft could well be
>planning a combo of a netscape-killer browser built right into every copy
>of Windows along with a special java-killer version of Visual Basic for web
>applets. The perfect integration of Windows, Microsoft Office, and the web.
>If Sun is thinking of Java as a "science project", I'm afraid Microsoft
>will clean their clock with a version of VB that is both vastly inferior to
>Java and vastly better marketed.
Glen, why do you say "I can imagine that Microsoft could well" be
"planning" a java-killer? I thought that Blackbird, Microsoft's downloadable
OLE control scheme that is used on Microsoft Network, already does all of
the things you mentioned, most especially "perfect integration of Windows,
Microsoft Office, and the web". The OLE controls are harder to write than
java applets, but content providers could care less. They have all the
controls the world ever needs: connections to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
and so on. I wonder if the java clock is already spiffy-clean.
John.
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