[1306] in java-interest
re: The Future of Java (and Sun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Smiljan Grmek - KSI ZGB)
Tue Aug 29 16:57:07 1995
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 18:30:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Smiljan Grmek - KSI ZGB <sgrmek@public.srce.hr>
To: Robert Stephen Rodgers <rsrodger@wam.umd.edu>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950828120735.21543A-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu>
On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Robert Stephen Rodgers wrote:
>
> Sun does not have to make money from Java for Java to have been a good
> investment of resources. Rather, if _Java_ prevents Sun from _losing_
> money (in the form of further marketshare and competitiveness in the form
> of apps available on Solaris but not, e.g., AIX) it will have been a good
> investment.
>
> That's the world Sun is looking at. Sun is one of my favorite companies,
> and it's sad to see them steadily crawling more tightly between that rock
> and hard place.
>
> Java can help.
>
According to an article in the Financial Times (jul 17) Sun intends to
finance (by actual hardware donations) universities to develop serious
freeware (text processors, spreadsheets and whatever non-computer people
out there need). This will have the effect of significantly lowering the
cost of a full system (which is at least 1/2 in software), freeing a lot
of buying power for hardware.
Quotes from the article:
'We are going to go to Berkeley and Stanford and MIT and universities
around the world and assign each of them the task of developing one
program ...'
'Imagine if you have 20m users of free Java wordprocessor and then you
form a little company and charge a dollar a copy of the fourth version
of the program ...'
Smiljan Grmek
KSI Zagreb
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