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It is very fascinating to see what is right now going on in the java market.
Mainly during the last two or three years there was a big hype going on about
java and the "write once run anywhere" promise. Sun claimed it's java to be the
solving of the problems of modern computerlanguages. You write your software
and it can run on any platform without the need to recompile it. You can run it
from the internet on any java-enabled client. That all sounded very promising
and I too jumped on this java train. Then sun created there java community
source license an everybody was thinking "wow, we can have the source, sun is
really giving java to our community bla bla bla". Sun created something like a
"community feeling". And this feeling was very nice.
As an abosulte anti-m$ develeoper I use on every of my machines linux (to be
honest, for my laptop I have a second harddrive with windows installed because
age of empires only runs on windows ;~) ...). And I have the feeling that the
only real community in informatics nowadays, wich is not commercially
interested, is the linux comunity. I doubt that sun produced java for any other
reason than becoming a big player with their solaris in the server market and
maybe in the desktop area. And they knew that it was very usefull to create the
thought and feeling of a "java community". But the big heads at solaris
suddenly noticed that linux is becoming more and more stronger and that they
have to take care of it. And taking care of it means dropping their support for
linux while claiming to support it. Means stop developing java for linux. That
is the only way they can hurt linux. (Maybe the resign of Alan Baratz had to do
with this?!?)
So all this blah about "comunity feeling" is nothing but hot air. This write
once run everywhere can be translated to "now we once write a language called
java and in a few years everywhere in the important places runs solaris". Sun
doesn't love the java comunity, they love the comunitys money and their own
solaris.
And who thinks that the big heads at IBM have other reasons for supporting
java? They know linux hurts M$, java hurts M$. So they support both of it. As
soon as it turns out that one or both of them become a potential threat to IBM,
they will stop to support it.
I think it is time to create something on our very own. I know there is
(M$-influented) kaffee (which still has a lot of problems), and I know there is
japhar (which I even haven't seen running in any way). With on our own I mean
create an open source java clone or create our very own promise of "write once
run anywhere". Why not doing this with "sourceXchange"?
BTW, I do __not__ mean to offend you guys at blackdown. I know you have done a
good job and worked very hard on this.
Best regards
Gunnar
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