Back in March of 1998, Network World invited me to write an article about Java in the enterprise. Java was still untested technology back then, so it had it’s detractors. Of course, I saw many benefits in Java, so I agreed to offer my opinion.

On the other side was a fellow by the name of Mike Sax, a strong Microsoft supporter. There were a number of predictions made by both us, some came true, some didn’t. You can read the article and judge for yourself how accurate our predictions were.

It might be hard to follow which part of the article I wrote and which part was written by Mike. I wrote the first half, which ends with “There is no doubt that Java is ready for the enterprise today. And in the coming years, there will be even more improvements.”. The remainder of the article is written by Mike Sax.