SUNW - Java for 486/DOS?
Butchi Nalajala
Looks like nobody has taken notice this announcement today!
Sun is coming out with Java based software to run on top of DOS
(no Windows). They promised some office applications for it.
Dont know whether it runs with or without a browser.
The announced purpose is to get a few more useful years out
of the current 486 machines. But I suspect SUN will use it
as a proof of concept and will try to usurp the OS of
choice position even on Pentium desktops in sites that have
both 486's and Pentiums.
Looks like a good strategy to me. They wouldn't have to push
any boxes. Every 486 recovered is a Pentium unsold. And that
could bring down Windows market share. Gets SUN a decent
foothold in corporate desktop arena.
(Nice to see SUN borrow a page from Apple's strategy book.)
What do folks think of this, from market positioning perspective?
Technically, it is a very do-able, in my opinion.
Butchi
Butchi
David Ray
This can be construed as nothing other than an assault on MSFT, which seems like a good idea to me. The idea
that MSFT is unseatable in its software leadership role is silly. Someone like a Sun or Oracle or yes, even
Borland, is capable of developing a Windows-killer -- particularly with the internet out there which brings
about the possibility -- even the likelihood -- of the development of serious platform-independent systems.
I find it fascinating to watch one group after another of "investors" who think a particular segment or
industry is untouchable. In the 70's, people were convinced that real estate would ALWAYS go up. Seemed
logical -- scarce supply, big demand, all that. Then, suddenly, property that was bought for 100,000 could be
purchased at auction for 15,000. Now, so many people belive MSFT and INTC stock are the same way. Nonsense;
just wait.
Those who are foolishly pouring all they have into particular stocks or industries will, at some point suffer.
DIVERSIFY. The Windows-killer is coming......
Hal Davitt
Many long-time Mac users have the same attitude. Windoze is a
serviceable, but kludgy OS. But developers write their software for it
now. Was 3.1. Now 95. Inevitable.
The real OS is NT, which is beginning to eat into the the Unix world.
I'm not sure it's as "scalable" as Unix, but I've seen really good
people use it.
Lack of quality hasn't slowed MSFT since its inception. Why now?
nam...@aol.com
In article <32FFE6...@shore.net>, Butchi Nalajala
<Type-...@shore.net> writes:
>The announced purpose is to get a few more useful years out
>of the current 486 machines. But I suspect SUN will use it
>as a proof of concept and will try to usurp the OS of
>choice position even on Pentium desktops in sites that have
>both 486's and Pentiums.
>
>
Don't let my 8088 hear that......
S. N . RAJESH
What's wrong with this. sun's Java will run on 486 processor with
windows 95 installed on it. I use it all the time!!!!!
Rajesh
ti...@xs4all.nl
In article <330024...@cei.net>, David Ray <dr...@cei.net> wrote:
<snip>
>The idea
>that MSFT is unseatable in its software leadership role is silly.
>I find it fascinating to watch one group after another of "investors" who think a particular segment or
>industry is untouchable. In the 70's, people were convinced that real estate would ALWAYS go up. Seemed
>logical -- scarce supply, big demand, all that. Then, suddenly, property that was bought for 100,000 could be
>purchased at auction for 15,000. Now, so many people belive MSFT and INTC stock are the same way. Nonsense;
>just wait.
>
>Those who are foolishly pouring all they have into particular stocks or industries will, at some point suffer.
> DIVERSIFY. The Windows-killer is coming......
Just like oil companies in the early 80's at the end of the decade-long
run of hte 70's, and the shorter fascination with Biotech and
pharmaceuticals in 1991, which ended in Clinton health care reform
and declining earnings.
So, we can guess which sector will fall next, but
which sector/asset will be the next to rise??