Computergram reader Mark Jahnke from San Diego is kind enough to point out that, in an earlier column on Microsoft’s use of the Plato name for its OLAP server/engine (CI No 3,459) and the penchant other vendors are now showing for Greek philosophers, we overlooked a major historical fact: Java (coffee) was discovered by Christian monks practicing Platonic thought, he recalls. Feel free to extend the Classical allegories as appropriate, though we should add that references to the bundled Plato as a modern-day Trojan Horse will not be entertained, and any similarities between Bill Gates and Caligula are purely coincidental…
