On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 03:07:36PM -0500, Mike Ajemian wrote:
> 1. Inprise JBuilder, sitting on top of JDK that Inprise authored.
> Good brand. Not involving Blackdown as the market might perceive
> that as a dilution (I know finance folks who would view the
> relationship as a major liability.) That's it. It's not
> specifically about the JDK, that's a component in the solution.
> It's about the packaging of Java tools from Inprise and selling
> those tools to (especially) corporate buyers who are still twitchy
> about Linux. For the corporate tools builder (IT departments are
> potential customers who stand out to me), they might want Linux if
> somebody supplied all the Java tools and supported them, too. So
> Inprise supplies all the tools and supports all the components,
> too. I know corporations that make decisions this way and it's
> not a bad thing. Integrated components, one point-of-contact.
> The market assigns a lot of value to that.
I just want to point out that the JDK is already "branded" by Sun and that
Blackdown has been officially appointed by Sun as the official porter. For a
lot of companies this is more than enough.
As I said many times before, we turned to the JDK to fix a specific need. We
knew that JDK 1.3 was going to be ported by Sun but we needed something for
the short term.
--
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.team
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