[1220] in java-interest
Java is not on its death-bed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Prescod)
Sat Aug 26 16:01:28 1995
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:59:52 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
>Amen to that. In particular, the only thing I've heard regarding
>Netscape is that they've "licensed" Java. Well, IBM "licensed"
>NextStep, and never did anything with it. They were just hedging,
>so they could be a player if it happened to take off. Netscape has
>about a 70% share of the Web browser market; if they don't actually
>use Java, it has no future.
"Mosaic has about a 70% share of the Web browser market. If they don't
actually support Tables, Tables will have no future." Sorry, I don't buy
that for a second. I would put a cleaned-up Hot Java against Netscape
Navigator any day. If Netscape decides not to move to Java, it will be
their loss.
Paul Prescod
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