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TO READ THE HEADLINES,yOU would think Microsoft's unwillingness to bundle Sun's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) in upcoming versions of Windows and Internet Explorer was an act of war right up there with Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon. Once again, analogies to civil strife and a fractured Internet abound.
Don't believe them.
To be sure, Microsoft and the burgeoning Java community have a lot at stake. Microsoft is right to view the combination of JFCs and Java Virtual Machines as the seeds of future operating system competition. Why should it deliberately install a rival environment in its own software?
And having watched supposedly anti-Microsoft "allies" such as Netscape, Sun and IBM/Lotus consistently stab one another in the back, Microsoft is wise to take a "show...