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From: "Matthew S. Whiting" <whiting@epix.net>
Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake)
Date: 1997/09/02
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Date: 1997-09-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Sure, but who judges what is a better job. The answer is that the only
> person who can judge is the consumer. The VHS vs Beta example is a good
> one from this point of view. The tecnical folks at Sony thought that
> image quality was *the* important technical quality. But they were wrong,
> and they paid for their mistake. In fact playing time was much more
> important to the public.
> 
> .
> .
> .
>
> For me, I would far rather rely on the consumer to make the decision of
> what features are or are not important and thus constitute the basis
> of answering this question!

Robert,

FWIW, I agree with you.  Unfortunately, by this success metric, Ada is
pretty much a failure.  Although, one could argue that insufficient time
has passed for the customer's decision to truly and completely be felt! 
:-)

Matt