[WEB4LIB] Re: IE 6.0 Problems & Product Lifecycle

[Thomas Dowling]

> Blake Carver wrote:
>
> > >
> > Sun (Scott McNealy) said something rather different;
> > "Microsoft has implied in the press that removing the Java Virtual
Machine
> > was a condition of the settlement of our lawsuit against them. Pardon
my
> > French, but that's bullspin."
> > "The decision to remove Java technology was Microsoft's alone....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Messer" <dmesser at yvrls.lib.wa.us>

> I had a gnawing suspicion in the back of my head that's what the deal
was, but
> no evidence to back it up. Thank you for the clarification and the
> confirmation!
>

The upside being that to run Java at all, users will need to get Sun's JRE
(or possibly the IBM Java VM), neither of which is subject to the same
questions about its standard adherence as the Microsoft Java VM.  Since
Netscape also distributes the Sun JRE, there's an increased likelihood
that applets might actually work the same way--or at all--on different
browsers.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu