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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.233.85.167!shore!nvp From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Apple/NeXTStep/Mach and free Unixes (Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD) Date: 31 Dec 1996 01:05:26 GMT Organization: Shore.Net; a service of Eco Software, Inc. (info@shore.net) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5a9osm$f9t@fridge-nf0.shore.net> References: <32C063E4.69BE@ibm.net> <32C0DF02.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <tporczyk.851889405@shellx> <32C725AC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <tporczyk.851965555@shellx> <tporczyk.851966319@shellx> <1996Dec30.194620.12275@wavehh.hanse.de> <5a9gnt$82j@fridge-nf0.shore.net> <tporczyk.851992328@shellx> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.shore.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33395 Tony Porczyk (tporczyk@best.com) wrote: : What do you think could a possible impact be of Corel preparing a : release of Office entirely in Java? Would that make it easier for us to : run "mainstream" business apps (however slow)? Of course not. :) It doesn't seem easier to me. Then again, Java doesn't turn me on - Python does [not to say that I think we should lobby Corel to release everything as python, either]. -- Nate [nvp@shore.net||nvp@nfic.com] "Take them to the Iron Maiden" IRON MAIDEN ... EXCELLENT! "Execute them!" BOGUS... - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure