I don't see a "tries" or "in a last ditch effort to stop the Sun juggernaut" phrase used in today's article on Microsoft's J/Direct.
Just look at the title of the article:
Microsoft to circumvent Sun to bring Java closer to Windows
It sounds like a done deal. Microsoft will circumvent Sun, Microsoft wins, Sun loses. Nowhere in the article is there any skepticism about possible lack of acceptance by developers. The tone of the article is that the war is over, and Microsoft has won.
I love this line:
"With J/Direct, Java developers won't be disadvantaged on Windows," said Cornelius Willis, group product manager at Microsoft.
Yeah, but they will be slightly disadvantaged on Mac, Linux, Unix, OS/2, BeOS, NC, etc., though. I guess the author of the article either doesn't care about this issue, or is too friggin' stupid to think of it.
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