Of all the companies I deal with worldwide, most have decided that they're going to go Java come hell or high water. But -- and this is a big but -- they don't know how they're going to do it.

Through 2001, pure Java applications will be limited in the amount of transaction support they offer for high-end computing, but they will provide mission-critical support in more than 60 percent of deployed applications.

SCSL is not the same as open source, but it could mean big benefits for Sun. [SCSL] opens up the doors and lets vendors innovate who wouldn't consider it before because they didn't want to sell their souls to Sun. We expect to see a significant expansion of Java as a result.

There is just a certain amount you can deal with.

It's a hell of a deal. It's fantastic,

Companies know that discrimination, whether overt or subtle, is bad for employees and bad for business.