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>>Just reading industry magazines. The Java camp is starting to fall apart. Sun has authorized diverging versions of Java for different machines...in other words, they are sanctioning exactly what they sued MS for doing.
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>IMO, it's a maturity issue. Remember JAVA is just in it's infancy v.2.0. VB is now 6.0. as well as VC++. Linux for example has also varied versions but they've the same architecture.

Part of the arguement from Sun was that the Windows extensions that MS added would not make the code platform portable.