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[Calvin Powers <calvin AT cspowers.com>]

I've been thinking more about the Microsoft decision to not ship a JVM run 
time in Windows. Hey, when I'm stuck at home doing mindless domestic 
chores, my mind wanders....

Rather than going on about whether Microsoft should or shouldn't have made 
this decision, which we can't control. We should work on things we can 
control.

One activity that is going on is a movement to get PC sellers to bundle 
current Java runtime environment with the machines they sell, so that the 
end-user doesn't have to download or install anything. Check out:
http://www.oreilly.com/news/jvm_0701.html

On top of that, we need to promote Java based and Java exploiting 
applications. For example, what e-mail clients are pure Java? Which can run 
Java applets when they display e-mail? Dunno. But we ought to find out and 
encourage people to use them. And people using these apps would likely also 
benefit from having a non-MAPI based e-mail system.

Just a thought....




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