17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 01:15 AM 8/15/97 +0200, you wrote:
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http://www.computerworld.com/news/970730javah.html
The Paul Maritz interview that article links to has disappeared from Computerworld's site, but a copy is appended.
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CW: Is there some reason you wouldn't want to ship them? Is there something inferior about them?
Maritz: No. We don't want to put further bloat on top of the system.
This obviously has to make everone on the planet bust a gut howling with laughter!
We think that basically there isn't a lot of end-user value in them. And Sun's trying to establish them as basically their platform. It's a competing operating system.