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InfoWorld: Intel targets conference rooms.

Is anyone from Intel listening? It isn't just about video technology. We learned a lot about software for meetings when we did ThinkTank in the mid 80s. Here's a story from a ThinkTank user that explains how it works. It's a goldmine, I swear, and Intel is inches away from it.

ComputerWorld: Reorg coming at JavaSoft.

USA Today: Netscape's plan. "What we do is understand where the industry is going and go there," says Mike McCue, 30, Netscape's vice president of technology. "Microsoft follows."

John Tigue of DataChannel adds to Bob Atkinson's comments from yesterday. Tigue is working on a proposal for RPC-over-HTTP called WebBroker.

InfoWorld: Anti-Microsoft lobby group forms. News.com reports that non-computer industry companies are joining this group, including publishers and the travel industry.

Lots of people are pointing me at a Wired article about Microsoft taking the Java VM out of the minimal download of MSIE.

Why now? When I talked with Gates last fall, a discussion centered around their travels with Java, I asked why they don't just give Java back to Sun and avoid the legal problems. He said that they needed Java to be competitive with Navigator. Just a guess here, now the pressure is off, because Netscape is backing off Java, presumably because they can't open-source-release Sun's Java VM.

     

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