TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In [email protected], I am the eternal <l.shad...@...> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: >> >>> The tech industries are always inventing things to make money for >>> themselves. Most are a waste of time. The real solution would >>> be to get rid of the need to keep inventing shit just to survive. >>> It's a very screwed up dog eat dog world we live in. Bring in >>> the asteroid. ;-) >>> >> Sorry but I see the utility for cloud computing. It's cheap, >> it's on demand, it's flexible as heck (a dozen different >> operating systems and machines, dozens of database and >> application software supported). >> > > So they're trying to reinvent the wheel with a > Java for the Web. :-) > > Probably because IBM is trying to buy Sun, and > will soon own Java. Maybe they will fix it. Java is very weak and hard to use for GUIs. I don't think JavaFX helped that much.
Along those lines I recently joined a developer email group that makes FFL pale in comparison by volume of posts. You try to figure out why so many posts? Well it is developer egos trying to say "look at me! I'm developing for this platform! Hire me." IOW, a lot of noise to filter out.
