Re: Fw: Thin Clients

Also, the one thing you have to remember about java, is it's an interpreted
language.  Remember BasicA and how slow they ran?  Until you compiled
it to native with QuickBasic, then it ran fast.

Any interpreted language is going to have some overhead, especially when
you are trying to do as much as java is.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Roger Pence wrote:

>  > The rumor mill says that Java isn't turning out to be as portable as it
> had
> > hoped to be and that Perl was being considered as a better alternative.
> >  Any truth to this one?
>
> Debates will rage for years on this subject. The challenge is that the Java
> portability question is such a subjective, not objective, issue. We truly
> won't know the answer for a couple of years, at best.
>
> However, ponder these empirical, irrefutable facts:
> Lotus couldn't make its Java eSuite MS Office alternative run fast enough
> or provide enough features and pulled the plug on it on Sep 9, 1999 (leaving
> IBM with only the Lotus Windows-base SmartSuite as its MS Office
> alternative).
>
> And, also early in September, Sun acquired Star Division Software and its
> StarOffice product. However, note that unlike eSuite, StarOffice runs as a
> _native_ application on each of its target platforms.
>
> Java has its place and will be valuable in many areas. But it looks more and
> more to me like the dew is off the lily and it's important to position Java
> correctly--not as a do-all and be-all panacea.
>
> rp
>
> >
> >
>
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