Unsealed documents show how deeply each company feared the other.
Although the documents introduce no new issues, they provide a fascinating glimpse into each company's paranoia about the other. Java Beans takes Java to a new level. We must acknowledge that Java competes with COM if we want to understand what to do about it. The documents show Gates driving employees to figure out what to do about Java, which he and other Microsoft executives saw as a serious threat to Windows. I really need to understand where we're going to draw the line because it's a slippery slope.