From: John Ludwig
Sent: Thurdsay, August 21, 1997 9:03 AM
To: Don Bradford
Subject: conversations with billg last nite
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I was at the exec staff meeting last nite and there were 3 interesting
exchanges with bill and the whole group about apple
1. bill's toop priority is for us to get the browser in october os
release from apple. we should do whatever it takes to make this happen.
if we get shut out, we should escalate to bill. you should make sure
that we are engaging deeply with apple on this one and resolving any and
all issues.
2. on the java work bill says the ball is in our court to come up with a
win/win solution. he suspects that we should be cooperating only at the
lowest level - native code interfaces, jits, etcx, not at the class lib
level. bill was clear that his whole goal here is to keep apple and sun
split. he doesn't care that much about being aligned with apple. he just
wants tham split from other potential allies.
3. on xplatform class libs, we had an interesting and at times
entertaining discussion. bill first asserted that we should be taking
the entire COR infrastructure to all platforms. bobmu and i educated him
about the expense of doing so - bobmu was pretty clear that there is no
plan to take COR anywhere but windows. bill was initially shocked at
this - he even said "so an isv that writes to COR is just fucked" this
had us all roling on the floor at the irony here - bobmu said "we prefer
to say taking full advantage of our platform bill" bill realized what he
had said and agreed that most of COR should not be ported everywhere.
ther was no clear conclusion to this discussion but overall i think ther
was a sense that most of the work would be windows-centric and that we
would not be working in general to take it all xplatform. the exception
might be some limited dcom pieces for large vertical isvs who need unix
solutions too.
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2759.pdf
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