[2703] in java-interest
RE: Java - what will M$ do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Yu)
Wed Oct 11 06:13:18 1995
From: Nelson Yu <nyu@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
To: "java-interest@java.sun.com" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Cc: "'Stephen Rawlinson'" <RAWLINSC@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 01:45:34 -0600
Stephen,
>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.
I don't understand how Sun, Microsoft and Netscape are somehow related?
Not to add to this debate too much(and trying to avoid it).
Sun's profits and revenues come from
1) Servers, hardware, terminals (i.e SPARCStations etc,)
2) Software, books etc..
Netscape's profits and revenues
1) Server software
2) Browser software
Microsoft profits and revenue come from
1) MS Office (50+ % of their revenue - once upon at time it was 66% >)
2) Books, OSes, other application software comprise the other 50%
More importantly < 50% of MS revenues come from outside of the U.S. Hey =
I've used Arabic/Chinese/French version of Windows and plethora of =
French-language software(i.e Aldus Pagemaker,. WordPerfect, etc.). But =
yet to see much else in the world from other OSes. Currently 70-80% of =
the Internet users are north american(i.e english-speaking), the =
software industry *ISN'T*. Other than unicode in Java, where the hell is =
international support?
The only thing even remotely relating the three is on-line banking, =
which of
those three will get run over by banks which are in order of magnitudes =
larger the three combined.
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