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Re: Java and Hotjava
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marko Gargenta)
Sun Dec 10 13:13:03 1995
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 11:51:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Marko Gargenta <mgargent@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
To: Charles Lowell <cowboyd@hougen.che.utexas.edu>
cc: tahmed <tahmed@on.bell.ca>, Jonathan_Mark_Smith@CCMAIL.PRUSEC.COM,
java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.951209112249.16477A-100000@hougen.che.utexas.edu>
Java has already taken off big time. It *is* a standard for internet
programming and virtual machine-like portability.
For MS to change this, they need something more inovative, new, and
better, not just a tweeked Java on MS way. And Blackbird sounds just like
tweeked Java - but not better.
> a wise man once said:
> "he who puts his product on the market first sets the standard"
>
> And it is because java has already been so widely accepted that microsoft
> knuckled under last thursday. It's better for SUN to have introduced a
> fledgling java with problems, than to have its authority as a standard
> challenged my some one as universally loathed as microsoft.
> We have many things to be thankful for.
> charlie
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