[1231] in java-interest
Re:Java is not on its death-bed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Bartlett)
Sat Aug 26 23:39:36 1995
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 20:29:40 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Neil Bartlett <neilb@the-wire.com>
>>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.
I agree. A year ago Mosaic was king; Netscape was an unknown. Today Netscape
is the wunderkind. Tools only survive as long as they are feature competitve.
Moving between browsers is simple and cheap. A cleaned up HotJava could just
as easily replace Netscape as Netscape replaced Mosaic.
Java is too useful a tool to remain in the darkness for long.
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