At 02:32 PM 05/04/2000 -0700, "Ryan S. Dancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Java is universally held in low regard by the Open Source software community
>as being an example of a concept that absolutely should have been made Free
>Software but that is shackled by Sun and has been rendered nearly useless as
>a market force.
Java is a significant market force today, especially in enterprise
programming, middleware, server-side applications, and ports of
legacy code. I don't dispute your argument that Sun should have
made it open source, but where are you folks getting the idea it
is a failure? I write computer books for a living, and Java books
are still extremely popular. Java's also expected to surpass C++
in overall usership soon, if it hasn't already. It sounds to me
like people are judging Java by the dismal, buggy implementations
in Web browsers, but that's a sidelight to a thriving industry in
other areas of computing.
Rogers Cadenhead
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.prefect.com
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