From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,95f6f0010d6d97a X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: "James P. White" Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Date: 1997/08/30 Message-ID: <340839A8.F6E4CC2C@pagesmiths.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 269075649 References: <34023FC9.59E2B600@eiffel.com> <3404670B.C3A2C4A2@pagesmiths.com> <34047A7D.62319AC4@eiffel.com> <34048653.63DECDAD@eiffel.com> <8p6k9h610pc.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Pagesmiths Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > Mike Coffin says > > < comes to technical information, how about just going to the source?>> > > Several people on this newsgroup have (very reasonably) cautioned that > newspapers may not be the best source of information. I would like to > suggest that neither is the PR department of the company affected, which > is of course working to put the best possible spin on this situation! That may be true is some general sense, but of course is not relevant to the topic of this thread which is not the credibility of the source of public information but rather the totally inaccurate report that Corel had made a major shift or retreat in their Java strategy when in fact what the company had said was that they were expanding their Java efforts. jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- James P. White Netscape DevEdge Champion for IFC Director of Technology Adventure Online Gaming http://www.gameworld.com Developers of Gameworld -- Live Action Role-Playing and Strategic Games jim@pagesmiths.com Pagesmiths' home is http://www.pagesmiths.com