Re: Necromail

Howdy All,

Whilst I certainly think Apple must be kicking themselves now (in  
hindsight) about moving EOF & WO to Java because (as others have  
mentioned) they would be in a fantastic position now if they had a  
language and frameworks that were common across servers (enterprise  
apps, Web apps), desktops, and phones / pdas.

The reality was though, at the time, it seemed they were even thinking  
of moving the desktop apps to Java (at least for a short while - until  
they saw how slow Java was then and how much memory the VM used for  
each app instance).  I believe they also hoped to benefit from the  
many Java libraries and tools (and WO now does).

Cheers,
Ashley.

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Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
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