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November 13, 1997

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Independent Research?


In response to an incredibly negative "independent research study" on Java, we did a little searching around Microsoft's web site on a hunch. To our shock and amazement, Market Decisions Corporation, the originator of the report, has done no less than three "independent" reports in the last couple of months on the popularity of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Visual J++, and Microsoft Visual InterDev Web Solutions Kit.

We have also gotten word that the study was funded, and that it was the "funder" who decided to make the results public by distributing a press release over the wire on Thursday morning. This timing was impeccable, as Friday is the deadline for the international vote on Sun's request to be a PAS submitter to ISO -- and at last tally, it looks like the vote will pass. We tried to get clarification on where the original list of developers came from (Windows developers perhaps?) and why the sampling was so small, but calls of inquiry to the research company weren't being returned.

Is the "funder" so desperate to try and thwart Java that they forget to cover their tracks and leave all these clues to the origins of this study? For a complete analysis of the Java marketplace from a well known and trusted research company, have a look at the recent Zona Research report Java: Markets, Opportunities, and Trends.


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