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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Corey Ashford Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/02 Message-ID: <372BEEB6.80F3496D@rocketmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473099714 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <37289A2C.4B78EB60@rocketmail.com> <7gesv8$1bol@drn.newsguy.com> <372BB93F.7DCFD2E1@rocketmail.com> <7ggi1v$p2i@drn.newsguy.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Rational Software Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Thanks for your thoughts, Mike. I agree with all of your points, and if you can avoid M$, do so. For the time being, there are a huge amount of WinX PC's out there and so there is a strong financial incentive to continue to develop apps for that platform. I suppose it's partially because of people's ignorance of other available technologies that we're in this bind. Unfortunately that's just the way it is. Kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario. Also, there's a real lack of consumer level apps for Unix (i.e. Linux). The one I hear most often is, "can I run quicken on it? If not, forget it." Myself, I've never developed WinX apps either (been in the embedded Ada and Unix Ada world for many years now), but my wife does and I hear quite a lot from her about it (both grumbling and success stories). I'm also taking a class in building software components. The technology used in the class is J++/COM, but we're also looking at Java Beans and Corba. (As a side note, I think it's interesting that Mozilla has chosen COM for its component technology, and apparently has it running on Unix platforms). Good luck to ya.