The Active Network
ActiveMac Anonymous | Create a User | Reviews | News | Forums | Advertise  
 

  *  

  Sun-Microsoft: Missed opportunities
Time: 11:04 EST/16:04 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Byron Hinson

Microsoft's rejection of Sun Microsystems' Java is nearly complete. Save for the occasional nod towards Java's popularity in enterprise development, Java does not enter into any of the development plans at Microsoft. This is the outcome of a three-and-a-half year legal battle over Microsoft's implementation of Java technology. Sun would have us believe that the successful suit saved the world from Microsoft's corruption of Java's "Write Once, Run Anywhere" (WORA) promise. In truth, all Sun has accomplished is to create a void for a VM-style technology on Windows, creating a market opportunity for the ultimate "polluted" Java (.NET). It would have been better for Sun to have allowed Microsoft to chart its own course with Java and relied on developers to make their own decisions than to chase off the investment and marketing muscle Microsoft could have put into Java.

Write Comment
Return to News

  Displaying 776 through 776 of 776
Prev | First
  The time now is 6:49:30 PM ET.
Any comment problems? E-mail us
#776 By 4240821 (82.115.4.100) at 1/8/2026 1:13:26 PM
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7077036
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076841
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076681
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076508
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076401
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076321
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076236
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076175
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7076104
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7075965

Write Comment
Return to News
  Displaying 776 through 776 of 776
Prev | First
  The time now is 6:49:30 PM ET.
Any comment problems? E-mail us
User name and password:

 

  *  
  *   *