[1916] in java-interest
Re: Ready or not, here it comes...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen C. Perkins)
Tue Sep 19 22:06:11 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:58:50 -0700
To: Arthur van Hoff <avh@Eng.Sun.COM>
From: Glen.Perkins@NativeGuide.com (Glen C. Perkins)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
>Hi Glen,
>
>> Just in case you haven't already done so, check out Netscape's new
>> announcements at
>>
>> http://home.netscape.com/
>>
>> Netscape is clearly on its way to becoming a multiplatform operating system
>> for communicative apps (which could be most apps in a few short years.)
>>
>> It appears as though there will be APIs to drive the Macromedia Director
>> player, the Acrobat viewer, a RealAudio player, and any other plug-in that
>> conforms to the Netscape APIs from Java programs.
>>
>> Am I misinterpreting this?
>
>I think you are. The Plug-in APIs are completely seperate from the
>Java applet APIs.
Oh. Oops. Seems like a shame, though.
[similar speculation about Java being used to drive the plug-ins deleted]
>
>No. It is completely seperate from Java.
Drat. Wrong again.
>
>> I also imagine we will also have access to netscape.* APIs for e-mail, ftp,
>> newsgroups, and all the other goodies built into the new Netscape. Maybe
>> Sun was asked to put their former alpha3 networking APIs into a sun.*
>> hierarchy because Netscape wanted to do a much fancier version of all of
>> them than the Java team had put together, not because Netscape didn't
>> intend to implement them at all. If I'm right, we can just consider it a
>> massive addition of resources to the Java team.
>
>You are wrong again.
Doh!!
>
>> I wonder how long it will be before Netscape offers to buy Java (and the
>> Java team) from Sun outright. I hear Netscape recently raised a little
>> money....
>
>Sun has complete control of the Java language and the Java Applet APIs.
That's why Netscape would need to buy it. Otherwise, as with HTML, they
could just take it, couldn't they? ;-)
>We are cooperating with Netscape to make these a standard for the internet.
Yes indeed. That's the only decision you guys ever made that I liked even
MORE than your choice of Unicode as your default char encoding!
>The price would be too high anyway... 8^)
>
Remember that line when Jim Clark takes you on a little real estate tour of
Woodside, just to "talk".... 8)
>Have fun,
>
> Arthur van Hoff
Oh, I am. Believe me ;)
__Glen__
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