There is one specific entry in Jonathan Schwartz’s blog that I read more than often: When I First Met Scott…. And every time I have travelled across this Nation to deliver a seminar on Java, I have made it a point to mention about this hair-raising article to the audience out there. What fascinated me the most was the vision of Scott (read every Sun Employee): The Network is the Computer. In the same blog entry, you would also find a mentioning about the so called Chicago Project. May be it is pure coincidence that a week forward to reading this article (that was a few months after Jonathan published this entry), I came across a column by Anand Parthasarathy in The Hindu Newspaper headlined Microsoft ready to give up the PC ‘mindset’. Upon reading the article, it required no time for me to realize that Microsoft was just repeating a statement that percolated from SUN several years back!
And this evening, I was guided to another piece of writing on the web, which talks about the Uninspiring Vista. The interesting fact is that this report is authored by a die-hard Windows fan. Let me make your life easy: It just discusses how simple and easy a Mac OS is as compared to the about-to-release Vista. I don’t intend to spend any more of my time comparing Mac OS with Windows, for I’m certain that there are many out there who wouldn’t digest these facts. To them, I will tell a tale:Please read it here. But what caught my attention the most was the author’s last few statements. Well, go ahead and read it and then you’ll know that slowly, but steadily Sun’s Vision is being realized and it indeed is the future. I sincerely wish to play my part in fulfulling this vision.