As an engineer first and foremost, it's kinda sad to see Sun go. I have fond memories of Uni days, when access to a sparcstation was a key factor in choosing my final year project :-)
In the end however, inability to monetise Java has been crucial in Sun's downfall. And maybe that's an upside to the Oracle acquisition: they /really/ know how to make money - big, enterprisey money - from software & services. A combination of Sun's undoubted engineering prowess with Oracle's business acumen could be really powerful /if/ it can come together. Here's hoping. And, since someone raised predictions, here's another: Oracle will realise JavaFX is a shining example of Sun's strengths and weaknesses: interesting, well engineered technology that utterly fails to understand market dynamics, constraints and opportunities. Oracle will kill it, and instead set up a strategic alliance with Adobe. Flash/Flex/Air will be positioned as the UI platform. There'll be statements of unifying the VMs: which, technically, will amount to not much more than bundling them together for seamless deployment (maybe taking advantage of the upcoming modularity improvements). Commercially however it'll be a success. Designers will lap up the creative environment they know and love, developers get to exploit the good ol' java platform, with renewed interest around the 2nd wave of jvm languages. Oracle will re-build the Apps front ends using it - which will give the combined platform huge penetration into and acceptance by the enterprise market. Some of the nicer JavaFX features will be rolled into subsequent releases of ActionScript. And Joe, finally, will get a proper Component model in the official 'java' UI technology :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
