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Thought the list would appreciate this: >"The People Moan" > >From: Harold Horsman, IBM Netherlands > >This weekend I read an article in the NRC Handelsblad, a respected Dutch newspaper, about a noteworthy occasion in Paris. >It was in Dutch and since not many of you can read it, I will do my best to transcribe the most important parts of it here, as it is >interesting to all of us who embrace JAVA and other standards. >The title of the article is "The people moan" ><begin transcript> >Recently, Paris witnessed the most bizar business conference in years. More than 1200 SW developers were invited by SW >moloch Microsoft to view the latest Internet Explorer 4.0. A mere 50 made it to the end of the conference day. The rest were >already gone, in anger and disgust. > >Until lunch nothing special was happening. But when everyone sat down again, Microsoft's marketing director in France took >the stand to say 'something about JAVA'. And he began a long and fierce 'filippica' against this even newer -and therefore a little >less stable- but much promising programming language. It didn't work, was no good, everybody could look into the sourcecode, >etc.. But the audience understood very well what Microsofts real objection against JAVA was: it's not made by Microsoft. > >And the audience didn't buy it. All those well-dressed 'IT-specialists', like schoolboys, began to make sissing and booo-noises. >So much that everybody was shocked by himself and the others; an embarrassed silence set in. The Microsoft staff on the stage >was looking baffled into the audience, the audience looked back in despair, until somebody shouted couragiously "Allez JAVA*" >(french for "Come on, JAVA"). A big applause and chear was raised. > >After this happened the majority of the audience left the building. > ><end of transcript, not of the article, which goes on about the monopo- listic style of Bill Gates and Microsoft, comparing him with >Richard III (Shakespeare). The artice ended with the observation that the people moan, like in Paris and starts to hope for some >sort of Richmond (also Shakespeare) to steam up to Redmond and make an end to this immature nonsense>. > >Harold Horsman >IBM NL >Brand Manager OS/2 - Direction du Logiciel >TŠl : 33(0)1 4905 8204 - Mobile : 0611 823 266 >Fax: 33(0)1 4905 7021 - email : milcent@fr.ibm.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to "JAVA400-L@midrange.com". | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com | and specify 'unsubscribe JAVA400-L' in the body of your message. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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