If Sun really felt this way, they would distribute with current tools and
more of them on Solaris. (And maybe even keep them current and patch them
quickly.)
In that regard, they maker Microsoft look like a responsive company...
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> It's all in the marketing, I guess. We're a Swiss Army Chainsaw
> but they're just responding to customer demands. Bah.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19474.html
>
> Sun brushed aside the 'Put Java On A Diet' by saying that developers
> want more, not fewer features. And Register readers overwhelmingly
> agree with Big Mauve. "It's not a hairball," Pat Sueltz told
> us. "It's becoming quite handsome."
>
> Rickie Green, Sun's VP of Java Development added:
>
> "It's a very delicate dance you have to do. Developers are asking for
> more and more features; individuals are saying to us we have not
> enough in Swing and EJBs and so on. You don't want to create too much
> bulk and damage the footprint, but the trend in the market has been to
> more and more services," he said.
>
> ...
>
> Nat
>
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply
Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.
"In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
