Word: winer
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...Sun/Netscape/Apple alliance that would use Java to fight Microsoft for control of the Web. Gates wants a proprietary Java platform optimized for Windows. This deal moves him closer to that goal while nudging his rivals further from their own. "Netscape could have shored up the Macintosh situation," says Dave Winer, an early Mac developer. "Same with Sun. They could have given Apple $150 million. They just weren't playing strategically. Microsoft...
Programmers who find the market for Windows software increasingly crowded and unprofitable see fresh opportunities to make their mark in Java. "The geeks are buzzed," says Dave Winer, a Silicon Valley-based programmer and self-described geek. "It's like a whole world just opened...
...enthusiasm of people like Winer is important. The millions Microsoft spent last summer promoting Windows 95 was directed as much to the software developers as to the public. Since no single company, not even Microsoft, can write all the software that is needed to make a new machine a success, competing computer makers are locked in a perpetual battle for the hearts and minds of the programming community. One of the fiercest skirmishes in recent months has been over the market for so-called Web browsers, in which Microsoft, Netscape and Sun all compete...
There are some who argue that Gates may be overreaching by taking on the Internet-that online services could become, as an America Online executive put it, "Microsoft's Vietnam." Dave Winer, president of a Silicon Valley software company called UserLand, sees the extraordinary growth of the Internet as a rebellion against Microsoft. "The users outfoxed us," he says. "While the software industry was following Bill Gates, the users went another way. They took control. And once the users take control, they never give it back...
...Wine, including "The Misfit" which is based on a Flannery O'Conner story. Performances: March 17, 18, 19 at 8 p.m. March 20 at 7 p.m. At the Adams House Pool Theatre. Admission: $5. All money goes toward Project Bosnia to buy urgent medical suuplies. For info call J. Winer...