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Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi... by MichaelGG on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:24AM (#8519661)
How does having a cross-platform system make their servers or systems preferable?

I'm all for it and see Java as doing quite a bit of good (despite the terribleness of the language and brain-damage it's inflicted on developers, which is a great bit of bad). I just don't get how it helped Sun, and I suppose, history shows it did not.

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Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:39PM (#8521855)
By increasing the ease of writing stuff that needs servers, the idea was that more servers would sell. Some (not all) of those would be Sun servers. That's a net win for Sun.
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