According to the firm's president, Michael Cowpland, the Java client components total only five megabytes, versus 100 megabytes for a monolithic Microsoft Windows office suite. Sanga International's Toffer Winslow, vice- president of marketing, thinks the key for enterprise users is flexibility to leverage a firm's existing IT investment. The beauty of write once, run anywhere is that it enables us to do many things that could not otherwise be done. Enterprise customers have spend a lot of money on information capture systems and they want to leverage that investment. Sanga has been demonstrating the ease of dropping third-party solutions into custom Java environments with Corel Office for Java.
Components drop in and run anywhere in the enterprise.
IBM has a large number of Java development projects aimed at the enterprise, says Scott Hebner, manager of application development marketing for the firm. They include DB2 interfaces, enterprise messaging, team development environments, version control, and many other value added components to address enterprise development requirements. Back to main JDK story . Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use .