[2690] in java-interest
Re: Java - what will M$ do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Moore)
Tue Oct 10 21:46:24 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 16:40:10 -0700
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: john@anasazi.com (John Moore)
>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.
I am concerned that Java is not far enough along for general rollout. It's
lack of persistent objects makes it an unlikely choice for software agent
technology, so it may be relegated to the position of a display toy -
something to jazz up web pages but not do serious applications in. In
addition, it would be nice if there were Java compilers for common platforms
(face it, Sun... the PC running win32 is the most common platform by far),
rather than just interpreters.
I haven't looked at all the demos on the net, but what I have seen so far
fits into the "snazzy toy" category... snazzy toys that take too long to
download every time you want to play with them.
I hope I am wrong. I'd love to get pointers to really useful applets (hint
hint).
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