--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: > > > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > Maybe they will. I am still on the periphery > of IBM because I'm a consultant and not an > employee, but in terms of "business ethics" and > "trying to do a good job" I have to admit that > I have been impressed so far. > > All of our products have to be "Blue Washed" > before they can be sold through IBM channels. > So what does that entail? Well, for one thing, > it involves scouring through every line of code > for every application, and all of the icons in > its GUIs, ferchrissakes, to determine if they > were really "invented here." > > "Borrowed code," even if legitimately borrowed > from Open Source software, does not get a "pass." > And if you borrowed from something like the Sun > Java libraries (as one of our products did, > completely legitimately), that also does not get > a "pass." IBM is going to force those developers > to sit in a room with the spec and reverse > engineer the routines they previously borrowed > to make sure that there is no *possible* ques- > tion of ownership. > > I find this impressive, having seen its opposite > at Microsoft and Computer Associates. I also find > the *quality* of the IBM employees I've been > meeting and interacting with online rather > impressive. And I am Not Easily Impressed. > > A lot of these people came out of Watson Labs, > which is one of the great "thinktank" organi- > zations on the planet. > > Have you ever been on a conference call in which > you had occasion to suspect *most* of the people > on the call of being geniuses? Neither had I, > until recently. > > IBM's bureaucracy is sometimes infuriating. I can > tell you that fersure. But SO FAR, their integrity > about doing business and the level of people I have > been meeting who are doing that business have been > very impressive indeed. So if there is any company > that can fix Java, they might just be it. This is > definitely "not your father's IBM." >
***** Definitely not your father's IBM, but maybe Deepak's father: IBM: The "I" stands for India: http://snipurl.com/ekuc5 <http://snipurl.com/ekuc5> [digitaldaily_allthingsd_com]
