Marc Andreesen souring on Java?

Rogers Cadenhead writes"Marc Andreessen is evidently souring a bit on Java after the cancellation of Netscape's all-Java version of Navigator. "My joke is that a Java Navigator will have a lot of good attributes," Andreesen told Computer Reseller News. "It's slower. It will crash more and have fewer features. So you can do fewer things. It will simplify your life."

Compare this to the March 23, 1995, quote from Marc Andreesen in the San Jose Mercury News that gave a huge boost to then-unknown Java: "What these guys are doing is undeniably, absolutely new. It's great stuff. There's so much stuff people want to do over the network that they haven't had the software to do. These guys are really pushing the envelope."

If anyone wants the "Javagator" source code after Andreesen's less-than-glowing endorsement, Computer Reseller News reports that Netscape has not ruled out an open-source release. "