"Java would instantly become a galactic standard. . . But there are many problems. Personally, I just don't trust them (Microsoft). The planet is littered with companies that did deals with Microsoft expecting to win big but ended up getting totally screwed."
- Father of Java, James Gosling, in a 1995 email to Sun CEO and president Scott McNealy, published last week, on the merits of a Microsoft deal.
"Terms like `The network is the computer' - that's a sales slogan. . . The PC model has defeated the other computer model. The Sun model is the old model, where they do the operating system and the hardware."
- Bill Gates delivering his assessment of Sun Microsystems in New York last week.