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Old 01-05-2006, 02:27 AM
Rhino
 
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Default Re: Microsoft's goals for 2006


"John A. Bailo" <jabailo@texeme.com> wrote in message
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> John A. Bailo wrote:
>> Paul Allen wrote:
>>
>>> It wasn't about money, but rather about preventing Microsoft from
>>> flooding the market with their proprietary version of Java. Sun
>>> won, big time, although it's not clear what that win means for
>>> their long-term survival. Java's on what, it's third GUI toolkit?
>>> I was just thinking about learning Swing, and now it's out and
>>> something else is in. That's a platform without a long-term
>>> strategy. :-(

>>
>>
>> The Eclipse SWT is very serviceable and finding many converts.
>>
>> It's all I would ever need -- and with the 1.0 release of the Eclipse SWT
>> its a no-brainer.
>>

>
> Opps...make that the 1.0 release of WST.
>

I _think_ you mean: "Oops.... make that the 1.0 release of SWT". Or is WST
something else again?

Rhino



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