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>> In article <884.6645T797T2962@atnet.at>: "JAVA"
>> Peter Routsis <rabauke@atnet.at> wrote:
>>
>> PR> english: Sorry we do not have any own involvment in the moment with
>> JAVA . PR> There are external activities and we can not afford , to waste
>> anything for PR> parallel jobs. PR> PR> ---peter--- PR> PR> PS.:my personal
>> opinion: As it looks AT is again like C ignoring major developments, pity.

>This is certainly a problem that needs addressing.  JAVA will be a hot
>area for people to work in.  For one thing, it could put the Amiga back
>into the business environment without going through the trouble of having
>to develop pure business software...  Anything developed in JAVA can bve
>run on ANY machine that is JAVA-enabled.  Do we want the Amiga to be the
>only one not?

exactly why I bothered to ask P.Kittel about AT's involvement- and why his
answer seemed rather "short-sighted" to me. Because noone can ignore JAVA
anymore, and it opens an ability to get hold of programms, independent of the
cpu and OS ( according to SUN-News the Java- programmers did think a bit of
braking the Windows's dominion..). Which would be a rather cheap and fast
chance to get a system like the Amiga back on track. 'cause the other way
would be to implement an emulator into new Amiga OS', which is rather
pervert.But more and more programmers will not support the Amiga anymore,
simple it does not work out financially, which can be understood easily. Even
that the Amiga-progs might be good and are cheaper than PC/MAC's, one should
take into consideration, that the people buying computers these days are not
"freaks" anymore- it is the ordinary folks. And these people relay on the
infos they get on TV etc. Imagine somebody buying this sc. "SurfPack"- starts
it and ..." where is this Netscape, Words etc..", about I have heard so much
on TV...and now they are confronted with a machine that offers none of
these...dissapointment for sure.
If the Amiga wants to survive it has to get back on the mainstream, specially
with software- titles that are well known by the masses. And therefor JAVA is
so important.Noneof the less I think that JAVA will be the future programmer's
main tools, because of the compatibility. Think that you could programm a 3d-
prog on a siliconGrafics/sun and use it on an Amiga etc. The programmers
choose the most suitable system for their developments and put it on the net
to be used by all platforms. They did give a try with UNIX in the same way,
but the invirement was not created in those days- but now with the Internet
the bases for this is given.

 So JAVA is allmost a" god given gift", and I am wondering why it is
neglected by AT. I do not say that they have to do it by themselves, but they
should support this project with all their force. And nowone can tell me that
they could not coordinate PowerAmiga and JAVA, and can only concentrate on
either- as many people responded...AT should do the marketing and coordinate
the various projects done by good people...is this that difficult to do ?


---peter---