[LUNI] CNN.com - Java revved up to fight Microsoft - Jun. 21, 2003

[Matthew Landry]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:10:47PM -0500, Michael McGonagle wrote:
> How is this going to effect Open Source? Is this going to kill Java 
> there? Can Sun pull it off?
	In the short term, gains for Java and Sun are good. But we must
always remember to keep our eyes on the big picture...Java is only _mostly_
Open Source, and Sun is still making a lot of money selling servers to run
a closed-source OS...they may be our allies-of-the-moment in the battle
against Microsoft, and one hopes they can eventually be brought on-board as
full partners, but they're not there yet, and we can't afford to start
looking at them as a savior.

	After all, there was a day not all THAT long ago, when IBM was the
Big Bad Enemy and any company that humbled them in the market (like...well...
Microsoft) was considered laudable.
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