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> From: Rich Kulawiec[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 12:55 PM
> To: Andreas Ramos; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: WC:>: FYI....
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 09:03:35AM -0700, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> > With Java in Windows, Sun has access to 95%+ of the desktop market.
> If Java
> > is removed, Sun is left with a whopping 1% or so (the size of the
> UNIX
> > market).
>
> Sun does not need Microsoft to be successful. They actually have
> real products and innovative technology to offer, not vaporware
> and badly-recycled ideas. *Not* that I'm enthralled with everything
> they do at Sun -- I'm not -- but at least they have something other
> than hype and FUD to sell.
>
>
No argument that Sun's products are more sophisticated, scaleable, etc
-- all the things that geekdom idolizes.
Disagree that they can afford to lose desktops/eyeballs to MS Java --
which,I'm sure is why they are in court. MSFT has >90% of the desktop
market -- and LOTS of firms are clamoring to partner with MSFT just to
have a go at a % of that market.
happening here w/one of the boeing partners -- that also is partnering
with MSFT -- and has developed a next generation web version of its
application that is Java based but MS java and supposedly only works on
MSIE except the browser "approved" for use here is NN4.0.
Kathy
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