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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
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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].

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Nate [nvp@shore.net||nvp@nfic.com]
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