Re: tlug: Ichitaro Ark

[Gregory Tucker <tuckerg@example.com>]

I will agree that Java is not yet optimized for shrink wrap applications,
but it is an excellent development environment for corporations, and a very
significant number of companies have committed pilot projects and real
projects on the Java platform. Their objective is to write their small to
medium sized, proprietary applications in a productive, cross-platform
fashion. And yes, serious developers are writing the code. In fact, my
company has lost more than one good developer to work on Java projects at
financial institutions in Tokyo.

Don't write off Java yet. In fact it is still taking off. You might also
note that Blackdown has released JDK 1.2.2 RC2 for Linux, based on the Sun
JDK. There are still a few issues, but overall it looks good.

I look forward to seeing the system from Ichitaro.

Regards,
Gregory Tucker

"Scott M. Stone" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Alberto Tomita wrote:
> 
> > The Ichitaro Ark Official web site is open:
> > http://www.justsystem.co.jp/ark/?akt
> >
> > It says it will be released on 12/3, with a 9,800 yen price tag.
> >
> > BTW, Ichitaro Ark is a multi-lingual word processing program
> > written entirely in Java.
> 
> what's their marketing slogan for this, "Be The First To Watch It Suck" ?
> I thought serious developers had given up on Java by now.. then again, the
> Athlons are out... :)
> 
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