Actually, I think that this is where Sun might be a bit misunderstood. Let's see if you guys agree with me.
Sun has produced a number of different products which you might call "environmental" products, that is, products which are intended to seed the environment to change the market to give Sun's shareholders the benefit of greater uptake of Sun's products in a more Sun-friendly market, as opposed to the current Microsoft friendly market.
So OOo is the alternative to MSO, and Java is the alternative to .Net.
Just as an aside, while SO/OOo can be seen as something done by Sun to provide an alternative to MSO (or even to provide anything, when thinking about the Solaris platform), historically Java came before .NET and didn't have much equivalent at the time, so if anything .NET came as an alternative to Java. If I understand correctly (and I don't have any more information than any other), Java's main initial point was to provide a platform-independent development solution (porting issues were a real pain at the time, not that they've gone that much better).
This doesn't invalidate your points, I just thought I'd mention it.
Cyrille
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