RE: [PcTech] Re:choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They have done just that Scott using their policy of "embrace. extend,
exterminate" that they've used so successfully over and over. Real Player
would be one example, Netscape and WordPerfect would be two more. You can
easily think of a dozen more. 
 
They did in fact embrace Java and things were fine until they started the 
extend" part of the strategy. Sun was smart enough to say "no. follow the
rules or go play in your own sandbox."
 
 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Date: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:17:24 PM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: RE: [PcTech] Re:choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc
 
What I don't understand is why MS doesn't step up to the plate and create a
JVM
for the Windows platform and tweak the heck out of it and claim that their
OSs
are the best/fastest to use when running Java apps. IBM did it with the JVM
for
the iSeries and their other OSs. Why would MS want to risk losing OS sales
to
competitors just because they won't include a JVM.
 
-- Scott Johnson