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From:   
    booth@martinvt.com [SMTP:booth@martinvt.com] 
Sent:   Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:10 AM 
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
Subject:        Re: Java is now dead 
    Not flocking?    What was 
    expected?  My goodness Java has been on the 
radar for just 6 years and there is lots of it out there.  Java 
    is a 
career choice, not some casual 
    decision about what to do on Saturday 
afternoon. 
    It is my opinion that Java has a good chance of 
    being in this for the long 
haul because 
    the Microsoft fans are going to get tired of sudden changes, 
    
product withdrawals, aborted paradigms, 
    and $4,000 Certification courses 
that 
    have no value a few years hence.  As time goes by managers will get 
    
tired of the hamster wheel known as The 
    Microsoft Solution and Java will 
look 
    like an old and trusted friend. 
    _______________________ 
Booth Martin 
Booth@MartinVT.com 
http://www.MartinVT.com 
_______________________ 
    "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org> 
    
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01/31/2001 11:20 AM 
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    Subject:        Re: Java is now 
    dead 
From: 
    <boldt@ca.ibm.com> 
> No, Java's 
    not dead, but there are a lot of other 
> reasons why developers haven't flocked to Java 
    I don't disagree, but, Hans, would you 
    elaborate 
on some of these other 
    reasons? 
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