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Java's strategic partners
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen C. Perkins)
Fri Aug 25 19:44:08 1995
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 13:13 WET DST
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Glen.Perkins@NativeGuide.com (Glen C. Perkins)
>From: "Vania Joloboff" <vania@gr.osf.org>
>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:35:49 +0200
>Subject: Java project at OSF
>
>This message to announce that OSF has engaged into a Java project.
>The goal of this project is to carry out an assessment of the
>Java/HotJava technology, as developed by Sun.
What great news!
>The project is sponsored by ATT, Digital, Hewlett-Packard,
>Novell and Sun.
Way to go, Sun!
Next, let's hear a joint announcement between Sun, Apple, Novell and IBM on
Java and OpenDoc.
Then, let's hear announcements from Sun/Borland, Sun/Symantec, and
Sun/Metrowerks on Java development systems.
Every major developer of packaged consumer software is looking for a way to
do one set of source code for every platform and for every language into
which they localize. Nobody expects to get there 100%, but the closer you
get, the more money it's worth. Since Java uses Unicode (yes!!), for
example, you could easily learn to write your code in such a way that you
could simply replace the English strings with Japanese or Chinese strings
without changing any (or much) code. (Since even the English strings would
be double-byte, Java itself would prevent problems such as selection points
landing in the middle of double-byte chars and that sort of perennial
localization headache.) It's a nightmare to have a US Windows version, and
a US Mac version, and a Japanese Windows version, and a Japanese Mac
version, etc. of your source code.
I had lunch with the CEO of one of the above companies and he claimed that
solving the above problem was the "ultimate holy grail" for his company and
all of his competitors. I believe that Sun could make a case that Java has
a better chance than C++ of helping them reach their holy grail. It would
be even more persuasive if Java had a tight relationship with OpenDoc and
Sun could show up at the meeting with representatives from Apple, Novell,
and maybe IBM and Netscape.
__Glen__
Glen.Perkins@NativeGuide.com
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