🚀 go-pugleaf

Ketil Z Malde (ketil@ii.uib.no) wrote:
[snip]
: They [Microsoft] use their market share in operating systems to leverage
: people into
: using their applications software  ("DOS ain't done, till Lotus won't
: run").  They use their market share in applications to leverage their
: server software.  The last development is the Java battle should serve
: as a good example - if you wish to use MS tools to build Java
: applications, you better be building Windows-only applications.  That
: there are unaddressed security concerns, or that it complicates things
: for users, are secondary issues to Microsoft.

Just thought I should point out that if you use non-MS tools (e.g. 
Symantec Cafe) on a Windows platform to develop Java applications, you're
still OK for cross-plaform.  Of course, so long as there is more than one
Java VM manufacturer (and may this always be the case), "write once, test
everywhere" is still the name of the game, no matter where you develop or
with what.

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Michael Agney