We find the same strategy being executed on the Internet with even less reliance on traditional software partnerships. Sign exclusive relationships with major information providers like the Wall Street Journal and Disney and limit their ability to promote competitive software from Netscape. And then there is Java. Here the traditional partnering model is being played out in full. Eliminate your partners.
History repeats itself.
The curtain has yet to fall on the first act of the Java melodrama, but two things are certain, and three questions remain. First, the market wants a standard, cross-platform Java. The answer to the first question may be coming soon. Microsoft's counsel David McDonald claimed that his company had the right to use the logo because its products had passed earlier test suites. Later tests, he said, were not backward-compatible.