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Hello Brian,

 > No, I think Escom is facing reality here, and are being very frugal with
 > the little money they have for development. They cannot afford to make
 > something some one else is developing. Remember, they are not making
 > much money at this time, I would prefer they spend it on the development
 > of the Amiga, and let 3rd party programmers work on other projects such
 > as Java. BTW, I have not seen Mac or Apple working on Java either.

I agree with you. On the other hand, I would very much like to see an Amiga
version of Java. I know there's a port underway, but I don't know how far
it is. I see Java as more than just a language that can be used to make
HTML pages more interactive. It can be a general purpose language, with the
great advantage that it is platform independent.

With the development of Java-on-a-chip like solutions, the speed of the
whole system will increase considerably too (speed is a problem at the
moment).

It's very interesting to see how much money Sun is spending on Java. I've
been to a seminar organized by Sun this week. They had all kinds of
speakers that use Java and are developing new, interesting applications
with it. This whole day was free and you were handed all kinds of goodies.

The battle for the net is underway, with Netscape and Microsoft giving away
their browsers for free too. It will be very interesting to see who comes
out on top.

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