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From: jordan@cruzio.com (Jordan Bortz)
Subject: Re: Goodbye ParcPlace
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I guess, the story could also be used in Engineering school, to teach
the efficacy of the words "Focus", "Execution", and "Customer
Requirements".

Jordan

FWIW, Java is also multithreaded. But yes it's a Smalltalk knockoff.
And no, I'm not a Java fan, personally.

Alan Lovejoy <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:

>Brad Cote wrote:
>> 
>> jordan@cruzio.com (Jordan Bortz) writes:
>> 
>> >Well, Eric, I am aware of whats available...The thread is ParcPlace
>> >not VisualAge.  What I am concerned with is VisualWORKS and of course,
>> >there are NO NATIVE widgets for VisualWorks, nor is there ODBC of
>> >course.
>> 
>> >The fact that there is for VisualAge shows how slow PPD has been at
>> >these things...and PPD doesnt seem to be pushing VSE for that task
>> >from what I can see, nor do I like the product line.
>> 
>> Brother. Java comes out with
>> 
>>         a) Bytecodes, virtual machine
>>         b) non-native widgets
>>         c) true multiplatform support
>> 
>> and everyone goes off the deep end - "Look how neat this is!"
>> Meanwhile PPD has had this in the marketplace THAT MEANS SELLING
>> IT AND MAKING A PROFIT - NOT GIVING IT AWAY for ten years, and
>> they are 'slow.'
>> 
>> Unbelievable
>> 
>> Brad Cote
>> bcote@ais.net

>Look up "heartbreaking irony" in a dictionary.  You'll see the ParcPlace-Java
>story as the canonnical example.

>Perhaps the contrast could be used in business school to show the value of
>marketing.

>--
>Alan L. Lovejoy		|==============================================| 
>Smalltalk Consultant	|	Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs!	       |
>alovejoy@concentric.net |==============================================|


