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Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
Date: 1999/04/29
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In article <37289A2C.4B78EB60@rocketmail.com>, Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>Jean-Marten Marchi wrote:
>
>Thin clients are available now and have been for many months
>(check out www.ncd.com).

I work with Oracle Applications which now has a Java thin client front end.  
Actually, it runs entirely from appletviewer.  That makes client machine set 
up a breeze.

One question I have is how does one define "thin".  It still takes a lot of 
software to achieve that.

>Java lost some of its momentum due, I think, to:
>
>1) over-hype
>2) pollution of the standard by Microsoft and others
>3) Sun trying to keep control of it.

4) It's SLOW (I don't care what anyone says about "Java is almost as fast as 
C++".  BS.)

I think the momentum for Java has slowed, but I also think it's starting to 
settle in and find its niche.  It *will* eventually find it's place, but I 
don't think the world will be rewritten in Java as Sun originally dreamed.

In the end, it will be just another language.