__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Saturday 03 March 2007 01:57 \__
> Doug Mentohl wrote:
>
>> From: Ben Slivka
>> Sent: Monday, April 14, 1997 3:09 AM
>> To: Bill Gates
>> Subject: java review with you
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> I'm working with paulma to set up a 2 - 3 hour review for you on our
>> Java efforts (I hope before your May think week) When I met with you
>> last, you had a lot of pretty pointed questions about Java, so I want to
>> make sure I understand your issues/concerns.
>>
>> Here's a start, can you please add any that I'm missing?
>>
>> 1. What is our business model for Java?
>> 2. How do we wrest control of Java away from Sun?
>> 3. How do we turn Java into just the latest, best way to write Windows
>> applications?
>> 4. What are we doing to leverage/expose Windows to Java developers?
>> 5. What patents do we have (fillled/granted) that we can use against Sun?
>>
>> ..
>>
>> Just FYI: I took on the Java effort last August, just after my team
>> shipped IE 3. I know it wouldn't be an easy job (or popular) job, but
>> Java seemed to me to be the biggest threat to Microsoft, and I wanted it
>> solved ..
>>
>> Thanks, bens
>>
>> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_4482.pdf
>
> Ha! Ben Slivka... THE BOOT LICKER...
Okay, I'll admit that this got me curious. Wikipedia (my default reference)
only came up with...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_School
So maybe there's some connection there. A corporate search engine leads me to
his blog. The most recent blog item
http://www.slivka.com/Blog/
"I'm not saying Open Source software is as easy to install and configure on
Linux as Windows native software is to install on Windows -- it is not! But
you can make Open Source software work on Linux, whereas it's a real
struggle on Windows."
*ROTFLMAO*
If that's truly him (I haven't checked), then therein we have an admission
that's damaging to Microsoft. Its own top people are frustrated with
Windows' prospects of running Open Source software.
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