[4104] in java-interest
Microsoft knuckled under? Not necessarily.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jayson Raymond)
Mon Dec 11 11:53:20 1995
To: Charles Lowell <cowboyd@hougen.che.utexas.edu>, tahmed <tahmed@on.bell.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 06:34:33 -0500
From: Jayson Raymond <jraymond@connectsoft.com>
CC: "Jonathan_Mark_Smith@CCMAIL.PRUSEC.COM" <Jonathan_Mark_Smith@CCMAIL.PRUSEC.COM>,
"java-interest@java.sun.com" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
-- [ From: Jayson Raymond * EMC.Ver #b.2.5.06 ] --
Charles Lowell wrote:
> And it is because java has already been so widely accepted that microsoft
> knuckled under last thursday.
Call me a pessimist, and perhaps I've missed something, but I wouldn't say
Microsoft has knuckled under just yet.
Given certain analysts yanked Microsoft off of their buy list and put
Netscape on, the cost of licensing Java is insignificant relative to the
recent loss in stock value. Just because they licensed Java for a browser
(which they didn't even develop), doesn't mean they're backing off.
I'd say they're just telling the analysts what they want to hear...
-Jayson
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