Re: A couple of issues

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On 17-APR-1996 03:11:38.9 xywrite said to LESLIE319
  >≪If anyone wants to discuss this general issue further it might be
  >better to do so privately or on a newsgroup rather than on this list--it
  >would rapidly get off-topic I suspect.≫ --James Eibisch
  >http://www.i-way.co.uk/~jeibisch/
  >James: Continuing discussion in a newsgroup sounds to me like a great
  >idea--not for lack of interest or just because a comp.infosystems.www.*
  >newsgroup *would* be appropriate. Disinterested discussion of Notes vs
  >intranet etc. systems, e.g., would be impossible here, where zeal is
  >relentless on behalf of The Megacorp That Made XyWrite and Microsoft
  >What They Are Today. As I read it, the jury still is out on Java and I
  >doubt many subscribers are fully conversant with the issues (I'm
  >tacking on one msg I just collected at random). Java programmers are
  >buying ever more powerful machines to get acceptable performance from
  >trivial applets at the same time users are saying, "Hey, guys! Where
  >is this power trip going?" and leaving warehouses stuffed. ... Imo,
  >opening the discussion to fresh viewpoints would be useful *and* would
  >possibly give xyW some much-needed exposure outside this hermetic
  >venue. ... Ciao.   --a
  >============================= adpFisher  nyc

Annie,

The arch-skeptic of P.C. Mag, John Dvorak, is indeed skeptical of the
usefulness of Java.

--Leslie--
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