I can't imagine that could turn out positive for Java. A fairly large part of the community has been annoyed for a while at the lack of leadership from SUN in regard to (core) Java. So it's tempting to try and connect the dots, in light of all the heavyweight engineers who left SUN or the Java community over the last 18 months. Many of these have remained mute about their reasons, though Neal Gafter eluded to the above on a recent infoq interview just prior to leaving Google for Microsoft.
/Casper On Nov 14, 4:31 pm, Joe Data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here we go - Sun lays off 18% of their staff and restructures their > software > group:http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/companies/sun_microsystems/index... > > I guess we have to wait and see what that means for Java. > > Karsten --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
