Casper Bang wrote: > 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. > The "neurotic attention to backwards compatibility" is a necessary fact of life for many companies and their customers. This is clearly evident in most of the big enterprise players -- IBM, Oracle, Sun, etc, etc -- and their customers.
It is possible to innovate without burning compatibility -- it's just another design constraint. -- Jess Holle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
