Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Java vs MS Common Runtime

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:7/26/2000; 2:09:10 PM
Topic:Java vs MS Common Runtime
Msg #:19142 (In response to 19141)
Prev/Next:19141 / 19143

It really bothers me that companies such as, say, UserLand, who appear to have an open, multi-platform development approach that would in theory benefit massively from Java don't seem to be considering it at all.

We did consider it, when the hype was hot and heavy. We couldn't even get a look at the license agreement. They were busy doing deals with big names, and fighting Microsoft, and the only way that ordinary developers could work with Java was to convert all our code to Java. Porting is one of the most senseless wastes of time, we would have had to really believed that there was no other way to the market. But the substance wasn't there. And having just gotten free of being a captive Apple developer, I certainly didn't want to sign up for being a Sun developer, whose rep was even worse than Apple for blowing off developers.

That's probably more than you wanted to know! ";->"

"cheesecake"

There are responses to this message:

This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:55:52 PM.

© Copyright 1998-2001 UserLand Software, Inc.