February 12, 1998 |
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Cooperation Over Competition |
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We'd like to thank Michelle Murdoch for the advice she's offering companies that are promoting NCs and Java. She makes the point that all of us (well, most of us) have realized as an industry: "Focus on cooperation over competition."
In order for Java and the NC to be intimate partners in the new enterprise computing model, companies need to continue their collaboration and avoid early fragmentation brought on by the nature of competition. Each of us can still differentiate ourselves in this joint effort by bringing the best of what we do to the table. The key is this: cooperate on the standards now, compete on them later.
Despite the significant steps that have already been taken, there's a lot that the industry still needs to do in order to make development for Java on the NC a profitable experience. In a sense, we're racing ahead of ourselves, trying to define a niche in a market that is itself still being defined. But we need to do this so that important standardization decisions can be made to enable the NC as the "best opportunity yet for server-based, non-vertical applications running from powerful multiuser systems." If we don't do this, already standardized paradigms will hamper our efforts.
So let's keep plugging away to standardize Java, NCs, and all the related components. This will make the network computing architecture a more solid computing platform -- one that enterprise decision makers will immediately recognize as the best choice for their needs.
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