i'm in an interesting position, and as such i need to drop a disclaimer from
the get go bcs these are my views and not those of the company i work for...
(the necessary b.s. since i'm too lazy to get a hotmail account to post
from...)
everyone is jumping down sun's throat on this one, with good cause. but i
think what is being forgotten is that inprise is an equal partner in this
little game... what i see is a huge marketing push. maybe it wasn't
intentional (if it was, it's pretty ingeniously contemptible)...
inprise makes tools. they also partner with sun who just picked up two tools
companies and has bcm a competitor. this is an interesting scenario since
the owner of java technology is now a direct competitor with companies that
are close partners. it would make sense, with a simple omission of fact in
an initial press-release, to create an air of suspicion around sun -- being
the bigger, more visible company they would of course take most of the heat
(not withstanding previously rocky relationships with developers and the
luke-warm reception of scsl). inprise then, is in perfect position to speak
out to a grass-roots user base and say 'we worked on the port, but the way
sun handled the release was a travesty of community development' then after
some time passes: 'use our tool instead and show big company what's what.'
this of course maybe total conspiratal b.s., but on the same token, if the
folks at inprise don't use it to their advantage they're stupid...
i'm not out to beat a dead horse, but i just wanted to point out that
political and business aims are not always on par with the thought process
that goes on with projects like blackdown... when people see a cool
technology and decide to make an effort to bring that technology to a
broader audience simply for the purity of it (maybe i'm romanticizing the
intentions of the porting team) the motivation is 180 degrees from a company
who is out to make money. regardless of the buzz words being thrown around,
big, rich companies all play by the same rules.
cL
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