Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:02:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, didier@omnix.fr.org, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 Message-ID: <199608231702.KAA16011@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199608231644.KAA07194@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 23, 96 10:44:31 am
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> Look at the mindshare M$ has. It is *inversely* proportional to it's > open-ness. Sun is just taking a card from M$'s deck and using it to > it's full advantage. I think we could argue that in order to contribute to "mindshare", one has to have a mind... that could easily disqualify most of the people you are counting there... > However, on the bright side it's popularity has caused the folks who > build the PC build tools to give usable build environments (Symantec's > Cafe', M$'s VJ++, etc..). Sun has *yet* to come up with a usable IDE > for doing java development, and they own the technology. :( Sorta like the toolkits (not) available from the X Consortium... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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