On 28-Dec-06, at 10:51 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
In another message in this thread you mentioned the story that Java was started only because Sun couldn't get a reasonable license from Parcplace. I have heard this a few times before but don't believe it -
I was there. It seems to be true, at least so far as the 'negotiations happened and SUN didn't want to pay that much'. There were also talks about using VW as the standard tool-building tool for admin type tools.
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Tim Rowledge wrote:
On 28-Dec-06, at 10:51 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
In another message in this thread you mentioned the story that Java was started only because Sun couldn't get a reasonable license from Parcplace. I have heard this a few times before but don't believe it -
I was there. It seems to be true, at least so far as the 'negotiations happened and SUN didn't want to pay that much'. There were also talks about using VW as the standard tool-building tool for admin type tools.
Interesting - thanks for the information! My observation was based on the fact that January 1991 was not only when the Self team moved from Stanford to Sun but also when the first real meeting of the Stealth/Green/Oak/Java group took place (in Aspen).
Do you remember when these negotiations took place? Perhaps this was for some other Sun project?
-- Jecel
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