Re: Requiem for OpenDoc

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From: Carsten Whimster - EDM/2
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:00

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In <5gim25$2l@dopey.magg.net>, badair@magg.net (Brooks Adair) writes:
>In message <5ghtkv$lan@server1.erinet.com> - grobin@erinet.com16 Mar 1997
>22:53:19 GMT writes:
>:>Why would anyone care about Open Doc when I.B.M. is on a "around the
>:>clock 24hr Java alert" !
>:>
>:>Between spending most of their time porting things to Windows NT and
>:>Java they have little time for much else.
> 
>What's realy stupid is that Java and OpenDoc should not even be looked at as
>compeating technoligies, they are complementary. IBM should be working to
>integrate them.

I know one company who will care about this announcement: the company
that bought Mesa and Clearlook (Sundial?). They have supposedly been 
working on releasing their programs as OpenDoc components. This type
of thing can sink a small company like that.

   Carsten Whimster
           carsten@edm2.com
           EDM/2 Editor-in-chief
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From: carsten@edm2.com (Carsten Whimster - EDM/2)
Subject: Re: Requiem for OpenDoc
Date: 1997/03/18
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