From: "David Blair" 

I don't disagree. That has nothing to do with my objections.


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> David Blair wrote:
> > I'm surprised there's no comment on this good news...
> >
> >
>
>
> BTW:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31449.html
>
> "While the recent ruling tips a cap in Microsoft's favor, it will likely
> do little to impact Java' adoption on the PC given recent events.
> Earlier this month at JavaOne, HP and Dell agreed to ship Sun's Java
> technology with their PCs and laptops. That gives Sun the world's
> largest PC makers, and the company claims smaller players are to follow.
>
> Java already enjoys strong server software market share and crushes
> Microsoft on cell phones. With companies such as Dell, HP, Yahoo! and
> AOL helping push the technology, the desktop should be okay regardless
> of how the Sun/Microsoft legal drama plays out.
>
> It took awhile for Dell and HP to help their customers, but Uncle Sam
> isn't going derail the train now. "
>
> Yup. Where HP & Dell lead others follow esp with the new update
> mechanism Sun are putting into Java (kinda like windows update but for
> java).
>
>
> ""Sun failed to meet this immediacy requirement," the
judges wrote. "Its
> own expert stated, in testimony relied upon by the district court in its
> written opinion, that even he could not be sure whether tipping was more
> likely than not. And as previously noted, the district court concluded
> that 'I do not find that at this precise moment there is an imminent
> threat that the market for general purpose, Internet-enabled distributed
> computing platforms will tip in favor of .NET.'""
>
> I agree with this & in fact I don't think there is even a medium or long
> term threat "that the market for general purpose, Internet-enabled
> distributed computing platforms will tip in favor of .NET."
>
> Minority tastes are catered for however as there is a c# plugin for
> Eclipse just as there's one for COBOL.
>
> Adam
>
>

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