[2677] in java-interest
Re: Java - what will M$ do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Rawlinson)
Tue Oct 10 09:33:14 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:20:44 +0100 (BST)
From: Stephen Rawlinson <RAWLINSC@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
CC: RAWLINSC@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk
According to the surveys, Netscape reportedly has 80% of the browser
market. If they can get their act together, and release a stable,
release version of Netscape 2.x with Java built in, then I think (and
hope) M$ will have a hard time catching up. Netscape may have
come under attack for creating their own non-standard HTML tags, but
this is one area where I really hope they can steal the lead.
Maybe whats needed is for some of the leading industry players to get
together and form a consortia to combat any developments that M$ might
come up with. Get more press coverage for Java, get a few stable Java
capable browsers out to the public, produce some killer demos/apps
that show what Java is capable of and stress the benefits to On-Line
service providers, software developers, corporates and so on, get Java
and HotJava ported to as many platforms as possible etc etc. In short
get it on as many desktops in as shorter time as possible, make it
ubiquitous.
Just my 2c worth.
Steve.
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