[6259] in java-interest
Re: Microsoft's Java efforts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Paluka)
Wed Mar 27 00:41:44 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:34:50 -0800
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From: Mike Paluka <mikep@EXMACHINA.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list JAVA-INTEREST
<JAVA-INTEREST@JAVASOFT.COM>
A View of Microsoft's Java/Internet Strategy
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Microsoft has expanded OCXs into an entire internet-aware framework
called "ActiveX". Yes, web pages can now have OLE and OCXs, if you
think that this is a good idea, then you don't know jack about OLE.
I've written OLE automation servers and clients from scratch (no
MFC), including my own IAdviseSink interfaces, etc., so I know
what I'm talking about.
Microsoft is giving away the SDK for ActiveX, including Internet
Explorer (IE) beta 3.0, for free (>25MB). This is clearly an
attempt to kill netscape by encouraging web-makers to implement
the (admittedly) impressive set of tools and controls, which ONLY
IE 3.0 can use.
Further, MS is making Java OLE-aware, so that it can i/f to
ActiveX, but also marrying it to the MS COM model, when ALL
EDUCATED people agree that the CORBA/SOM model is superior.
See the comparison at:
ftp://ftp.cil.org//pub/cilabs/tech/system_object_model/SOM_vs_COM_Compar/SOM
_vs_COM_Compar.html
These MS moves are great things for people who run Windows ex-
clusively, and are willing to let Microsoft manage their lives
from cratle to grave.
For the remaining 98.6% of us, this represents a fragmentation
of the internet into incompatible segments (MS and everybody
else). This is what I predicted to this newsgroup six months
ago, that MS would fragment Java and the net, for its own
self-interest.
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Michael J. Paluka
Senior Software Engineer
Ex Machina, Inc.
mikep@exmachina.com
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