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Cross platform is more than two tier model ...
..Corporations see a lower cost of deployment and maintanence...

They see this now by picking a single client, of whatever type.
This cross platform stuff is a red herring for enterprise applications (Intranets just need a browser).

Single client requires a homogenous environment. Even MS with all its "compelling value" has been unable to force all but the smallest of customers into a single client model. Fact is, customers require flexibility to deploy on the platform which best meets their needs rather than morph their business into the suppliers "model environment".

The days of forcing customers onto a platform went out with the invention of the n-tier model. Far more than a red herring, enterprise computing allows customers to wrap their legacy solutions up and present them to multiple applications in a consistant manner. Middleware saves the customers the risk of porting the legacy to new world. MS's problem is it simply does not even attempt to meet this multi-tier/hetrogenous requirement driving enterprise computing. Sure they can provide an optimized pet store using .NET, but what about a multi-national bank which has only one viable choice - J2EE?

The "browser" is the modern equivalent of the dumb terminal. All the real computing happens in the mulktiple tiers behind the web server which are 99% JAVA in real world, big iron solutions. Even AS-400 is part of the J2EE camp, what's that tell ya about herrings of any color?
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The front runner makes a big target ...  oldskool | 03/29/04
The front runner makes a big target ...  seosamh_z | 03/29/04
Cross platform is more than two tier model ...  oldskool | 03/29/04
Cross platform is more than two tier model ...  seosamh_z | 03/29/04
Let me know when VB will run on linux(nt)  nite_w0lf | 03/29/04
Who am I, your mother? NT  seosamh_z | 03/29/04
Ummm ... acually, no it isn't.  coffeenite | 03/30/04
Java tool  newid2092@... | 03/30/04
re: Java tool  bgoss@... | 03/30/04
Nice change, Sun giving instead of looking for  FilledOut | 03/30/04
How long you been using computers?  oldskool | 03/30/04
Direct answer to your question  FilledOut | 03/30/04

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