🚀 go-pugleaf

Wally Highsmith wrote:

> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualj/news/rumors.asp
>
> From Microsoft....
>
> Letter to Our Customers
> By now we imagine some of you have read news reports indicating Microsoft
> has sold Visual J++ to another company. We want to make it clear that these
> articles are in error. We absolutely have not - and have no plans - to sell
> off the Visual J++ product. Visual J++ 6.0 is the most widely used Java
> development tool, and we look forward to its continued success in the
> market.
>
> These articles were most likely the result of confusion around announcements
> connected with the Visual Studio Integrators Program (VSIP). VSIP allows
> third party vendors to build compilers and related tools that integrate
> directly into the Visual Studio environment.
>
> As a member of this program, Rational announced they would be producing a
> Java compiler that will run inside Visual Studio. This product will be
> completely designed, developed, and marketed by Rational and has nothing to
> do with Visual J++. You may be interested to know that VSIP will bring a
> variety of languages from other vendors to Visual Studio as well, including
> additional Java support by TowerJ, several versions of COBOL, and more.
>
> We stand behind the innovations first surfaced in Visual J++ and want to see
> them continue. Unfortunately, there is a cloud of doubt over the industry's
> ability to innovate and advance Java long term. Until we receive and
> understand some rulings currently pending before the court hearing the Java
> lawsuit, we cannot make announcements on future Visual J++ product strategy.
>
> Thank you,
>
> The Visual J++ Team
> Microsoft Corporation
>
> Last Updated: 12/14/99
>
> � 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use.
>
> Sten Bergqvist wrote in message <387DDFAD.A2C0F2CB@telia.com>...
> >I heard somewhere that M$ closed down the development of J++. Is that
> correct?
> >
> >

Reassuring, but for some reason it just sounds too much like Apple speaking
about not killing the Newton when they brought them back into Apple. Of course,
a few months later they did kill it. Took several more months for them to admit
it, though. No more active development was going on, but they did have
inventory they wanted to clear out.


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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.