December 2, 1997 |
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Is Java a Conspiracy? |
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Is Java a political weapon for IT departments to regain control over those pesky end users once and for all? Aaron Goldberg, EVP of Ziff Davis' research company Computer Intelligence, suggests that the Java supporters have "Stalinist" control tendencies in his article, The Java conspiracy is coming to a PC near you. Actually, Java is not about centralized computing control, but distributed computing freedom.
The Java platform gives users freedom of choice in operating systems and hardware platforms, and it distributes applications and data to a growing number of client devices. The Java-based network computing architecture is gaining industry support because it achieves the perfect balance between PC anarchy and host/terminal control. The fact that Java-based NCs are more easily managed centrally gives administrators the ability to save time, money, and headaches all around, not the power to reassert some lost political clout.
IBM sees Java as a way to distribute mainframe data and applications through thin clients to Web browsers everywhere. We don't see the Java platform completely replacing the bloated corporate desktop PC running office applications. Some people really need this stuff -- but not nearly the number who think they do. The real conspiracy here is that everyone has been led to believe that there is no alternative, and this is the Stalinist control that Java is guilty of exposing.
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