From: Jim Allchin (Exchange)
Sent: Monday, January 06, 1997 1:43 PM
To: Rob Short; Moshe Dunie; Mark Lucovsky; Lou Perazzo; Frank Artale;
Steve Madigan; Deborah Black
Subject: FW: overview slides for Billg/NC & Java session with 14+s on Monday
fyi,
From: Paul Mantz
Sent: Sunday, January 5, 1997 11:09 AM
To: Bill Gates; Jim Allchin (Exchange); Ben Silva; Brad Silverberg
Cc: Aaron Contorer
Subject: FW: overview slides for Billg/NC & Java session with 14+s on Monday
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Key Platform Challenges
* NC & Java are platform challenges;
- possible emergence of a set of API's and underlying system software
that lead to lesser or no role for Windows.
- puts our other (server & apps) businesses at a disadvantage
Scenario: Emergence of a new API
* Sun AWT provides base cross-platform API
* Navigator/NetOne provides;
- additional API's
- a volume platform for ISVs & Corps to target, since runtime gets
shipped with Navigator
* NC's
- could provides additional volume
- have no MS system software involved
Response Summary
* Increase IE share
- integrate with Windows
* Lower TCO:
- "Zero Admin Windows"
- Office improvements
* Take HTML & Java Leadership
- Extend HTML
- Offer best Java runtime tools
* enough x-platform to be competitive
* integrate Java RT & Windows:
- encourage access to unique Windows functions
- performance
* great Java RAD tools
..
* Offer "standard" Java runtime to be competitive,
- basically redistribute whatever Sun gives us in near term.
* Expose as much of Windows as we can to Java developers via extensions
to AWT
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5852.pdf
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