Re: The San Francisco Project

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth

At 01:05 PM 11/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>on 11/13/97at 09:59 PM, the Great and Grand  Wazir "Chris Rehm"
><Mr.AS400@ibm.net> said:
>
>
>
IBM has stated their current plan is to market their frameworks for a
>
percentage of sales. I suppose that means if you want to develop a public
>
domain package you can use them for free. 
>
>I was very disappointed though.  Java's big claim is write once, run
>anywhere.  So, I was excited  -  I like OS/2 (which is masochism, but that
>is another story)  - but now, Java! WORA! great!  I'm home free!  I have a
>new lease on OS/2.  yeah, right.  The San Francisco project's downloadable
>stuff is Windows 95 only.  So what's the point?  Are they trying to
>out-Windows Windows?

But the Java classes are not Windows-specific. Once you get them
downloaded, you can put them anywhere, right?

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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