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| | Java advocates ponder the road ahead |
 | | Microsoft Corp. has effectively undermined Java, Ross said, drawing a parallel between the "Java War" and ice skating's most notorious scandal, Tonya Harding's involvement in the 1994 attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan. |
 | | Respondents perceived that Java had been pitched to them as a panacea for everything, and once it failed to deliver on that promise, they became disenchanted with the platform and receptive to the promises of Microsoft's.Net. |
 | | One of Java's key selling points is its multivendor support, said Snelling, an asset that should increasingly attract customers as they take a serious look at the dangers of tying their enterprise infrastructure to the proprietary.Net. |
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