From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 24 14:11:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA00788 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00782 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA19883; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:00:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608242100.OAA19883@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 To: doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov (Doug Wellington) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:00:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov In-Reply-To: <9608240420.AA02605@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov> from "Doug Wellington" at Aug 23, 96 09:20:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What is The Real Deal(tm) with Java anyway? Once you get through > the hype, is Java anything more than C++ without pointers? That's obvious. Two futures: Microsoft Sun ---------------------- ---------------------- Where to grab money? Set top boxes. Set top boxes. Implementation? Built in browser Built in browser with pluggable with pluggable extensions. extensions. Plugin technology? ActiveX controls. JAVA Applets. Linking technology? Dynamic loading, Dynamic loading, not using COM using COM Transport technology to avoid loacl storage? CIFS WebNFS Server technology? Intel; plus some Intel; plust some RISC platforms, but RISC platforms, like not SPARC machines SPARC machines Server OS? NT Solaris ---------------------- ---------------------- Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.