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[Buch]

I was away for a while, and what happens when I return? :))

Sun is renaming Java 1.5 to 5.0.

Totally unnecessary and counter-productive.
They could have 2.0 if they wanted "marketing impact".


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[Lori M Olson [TeamB]]

Post by Buch
I was away for a while, and what happens when I return? :))

Sun is renaming Java 1.5 to 5.0.

Totally unnecessary and counter-productive.
They could have 2.0 if they wanted "marketing impact".

No, they couldn't. The "marketing impact" that they want, at least in
part, is to illustrate the relative maturity of the platform, compared
to .NET. Microsoft is getting ready to release .NET Framework 2.0, so
Java has to have a relative number greater than that.

[Gillmer J. Derge [TeamB]]

Post by Lori M Olson [TeamB]
No, they couldn't. The "marketing impact" that they want, at least in
part, is to illustrate the relative maturity of the platform, compared
to .NET. Microsoft is getting ready to release .NET Framework 2.0, so
Java has to have a relative number greater than that.

Also, they already used 2.0. JDK 1.2 was Java 2.0.

[John McGrath [TeamB]]

Post by Gillmer J. Derge [TeamB]
Also, they already used 2.0. JDK 1.2 was Java 2.0.

To be pedantic, they used "2", not "2.0". The 1.0 and 1.1 versions of
the JDK/SDK/JRE implemented the "Java 1 Platform" and later versions
implemented the "Java 2 Platform". The Tiger release will be Java 2
platform, version 5.0.

[Buch]

Post by Lori M Olson [TeamB]
No, they couldn't. The "marketing impact" that they want, at least in
part, is to illustrate the relative maturity of the platform, compared
to .NET. Microsoft is getting ready to release .NET Framework 2.0, so
Java has to have a relative number greater than that.

Well, ms can change product naming scheme, like they always do.
For example, net 3.0 can be named Hyper.NET, NET.Millenium or whatever.
For Java, all that will change is rupture between 1.4 and 5.
And that 5 would mean something only to people that are not qualified to
make decision in the first place .... :))
Never mind.

[Joost Molenaar]

Post by Lori M Olson [TeamB]
Microsoft is getting ready to release .NET Framework 2.0, so
Java has to have a relative number greater than that.

.NET 2.0 is better than Java 1.5, but Windows 98 is MUCH (96.0 and 96.5,
respectively) better than either! Java will soon gain 3.6 on Windows.
But how much is XP minus 5? Now I don't know which is better!!