"MS Killed Java" (on the Client) JL Founder

Posted by Hemos on Friday August 30, 2002 @04:14AM from the killing-the-pool dept.

jgeelan writes "In a commentary titled "Microsoft Killed Java" the founder of JavaLobby, Rick Ross, revisits the 'death' of Java on the client. "Five years ago, almost to the day," Ross declares, "Microsoft shipped IE4 with a JVM that was intentionally engineered to provide leverage to corrupt and pollute Java compatibility standards." According to an Associated Press report, Microsoft Corp has until only October 4 to respond to Sun Microsystems' request for a federal court injunction requiring Microsoft to integrate Java into Windows."

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Re:Okay... and...? by ObviousGuy · 2002-08-30 04:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Got any hard numbers to back up your big talk? So far there's been one product named that's useful across multiple platforms. Everything else that's been mentioned has been internal use only and those certainly don't need to be cross platform.

I'll toss out another one for you. JBuilder is written in Java and useful across multiple platforms. Got any more?

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