"Volker A. Brandt" <v...@bb-c.de> wrote:
> I understand your frustration, as I have been feeling it myself.
>
> Yes, Sun has made two big mistakes: Implementing IPS in Python, and
> ditching scripting capability in the packages. I'm sure these seemed
> like good engineering decisions way back at the drawing board. But
> they're a disaster in terms of marketing, installed base, and usability.
>
> But Sun has always been engineering rather than marketing driven, and
> frankly, that's why I like them. :-)
It seems that the type of engineer at Sun did change since the days of Bill Joy.
Jörg
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