On 10/5/10 21:54 , Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
Agreed.
It's very easy for anonymous dzone developers to vote the post up and
say "yeah, great idea" but maybe they should pause and ponder this:
"Imagine you're the CTO of your company. Six months from now, Lava
releases v1.0 of their new language. Do you convert your entire
company to use it or stick with Java?".
Agreed (I also agree with Jan about it's "either or" latest post).
Cédric makes me think of an additional argument to back my point:
notwithstanding my known criticism of some parts of Android that could
have been done better :-), Android it another proof that a successful
technology emerges out of skilled engineering _and_ cohese politics.
That is, Android is successful because Google de facto _imposed_ it to
phone manufacturers (not with force, I mean, but in the end Google is
the leading player for the specs, both sw and hw). And it's evolving
fast. The big failure of the JME model, IMO, is due to the fact that Sun
couldn't impose anything to phone manufacturers, hence a collective
process about how to evolve the technology arose and you know where it
went (of course, these are not only the two different points from the
JME and Android governance, but the ones that I feel relevant now). I
could cite Apple too, but it's a one-of-its-kind solo player and can be
argued as an exception. Oracle must solve some essential points in the
way it wants to relation with other corporates and the community, but
I'd feel better with a single steward.
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