Their failing business model was predicted a long time ago by both Paul Graham and John C. Dvorak. My personal feeling is that Sun had this weird pendulum approach, very much visible in Java itself. Focus swinging from side to side, too slow to actually have an impact and eventually loosing interest without finishing the job. Of course, having a disastrous marketing department doesn't help and neither did the neurotic attention to backwards compatibility hindering innovation.
Open source models do work, we see that many other places. But there needs to be more focus on context and innovation, than the showing off of fancy demo's at conferences and the pointless reciting of JME deployment numbers. One thing is sure though, Sun's top people are not the ones who will have to pay for these mistakes. /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
