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Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> 
> In article <5gmiuh$bfd@dopey.magg.net>, badair@magg.net wrote:
> >I would expect that if OMG goes for JavaBeans then OpenDoc (as it is now) is
> >dead.
> 
> >When I first read the PC Week article I was disturbed, but if they use the
> >OpenDoc technology to enhance JavaBeans they could get it to be as good as
> >OpenDoc AND have the advantage of haveing code that can run on any system.
> 
> >So it shouldn't be that bad, after all JavaBeans is still based off of the
> >same foundation, CORBA. Of course this will be bad for the small companies
> >that started OpenDoc development.
> 
> >JavaBeans will also have the advantage of being promoted by Netscape and Sun,
> >not just IBM. This will give it a MUCH better chance of succeding over
> >HacktiveX.
> 
> Isn't anyone concerned that IBM never actually seems to *DELIVER* any new
> technologies?
> 
> It seems to take IBM so long to develop new technologies that by the time they
> are even half done they are already obsolete.  Thus, IBM is always in a state
> of canibalizing prior technology to try to get their next new technology (that
> also won't make it out in time).
> 
> There are several examples:
> 
> WP/OS, OS/2 PPC, Taligent, OpenDoc, etc.. off the top of my head...
> 
> Why is this?
Because IBM seems to wait and release a product that a company
can use. How would IBM look if they released incomplete software
and its corporate customers couldn't use it or worst, they lost
money or lives because of it? Like Paul Mason, IBM tends to sell
not SOFTWARE before its time. Unlike Microsoft that releases the
PR way before the alpha is available and then sells the beta as
version 1.0. Soon there are soooo many fixes that within a year
the product is at version 3.0 or 4.0! Look at Internet Explorer 
and Exchange for examples.

-- 
Doug LaRue
djlarue@ibm.net

The reasonable adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
 - George Bernard Shaw