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Divya's infoBook receives 100% Pure Java certification
Divya Inc.'s infoBook has received 100% Pure Java certification. infoBook is a Java-based text and multimedia information presentation manager that often is used for an interactive phone book and product and real estate catalog.
infoBook is primarily used as an applet in Web pages, although it can also be used as a standalone application. And its is certified as both an applet and application.
Divya also plans to get BackOnline, its Java- and browser-based client/server backup software, certified too, according to Divya president and CEO Anil Hemrajani.
- infoBook: http://www.divya.com/products/infoBook/index.html
- BackOnline: http://www.divya.com/products/backonline/index.html
Microsoft's latest Java SDK somewhat more compliant
According to the Extraprise Group's "Extraprise Alert" newsletter, Microsoft's latest shipping version of its Software Development Kit for Java 2.01 now provides classes that supports Sun's JDK 1.02. Sun is now shipping JDK 1.1.5.
The newsletter attributes this move by Microsoft as a response to the swelling ranks of developers and corporate IT managers that are demanding a more open standardized Java. Not to mention that the U.S. District Court is expected to issue a ruling in the Sun vs. Microsoft lawsuit soon.
Survey: Internet, distributed apps well under way
The Extraprise Group's Advisory Services has released some early results from its Extraprise 100 survey of senior IS staff at Fortune 1000 and emerging companies. And the results show that Web-based applications have found a solid home in corporations.
Some of the early findings include:
- 81% of the respondents are now developing intranet and extranet systems
- 60% use Netscape for the standard Web server environment (45% use Microsoft Web servers)
- 45% use Java for development (39% use Visual Basic)
- 24% use some sort of push technology
So far, the survey has found that the most popular arenas for Internet applications are marketing, customer support, and human resources.
The complete survey results will be available in January 1998. For more information, email abonde@extraprise.com
Large percentage of Windows programmers writing for both Netscape and IE
In the first of a continuing series of non-sponsored programmer opinion surveys, Evans Marketing Services discovered that of the 300 Windows programmers it contacted, more than 70 percent are writing their apps for both the Netscape and Internet Explorer Java virtual machines (VM).
In Evans' Summer '97 Programmer Opinion Survey, the company also found
- 61.3% are writing Internet apps that use a VM
- 16.3% are writing for the Netscape VM only
- 11.9% are writing for the IE VM only
- 71.9% are writing for both
And what will next year bring for these programmers?
- 67.1% will be writing VM-targeted apps
- 11.4% will be writing for the Netscape VM only
- 12.9% will be writing for the IE VM only
- 75.6% will be writing for both
Of course, browser usage among this group doesn't reflect development habits. Forty percent use Netscape for surfing, 38.7 use Internet Explorer, and 19 percent use both.
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