First of all, I'm glad now that Oracle bought Sun since that probably did save more jobs and kept more projects alive than being bought by IBM. I was skeptic at first but not anymore.
Now onto some comments to both Oracle and the iPad. Killed projects: Beyond Kenai, it seems that the Amazon-EC2-clone by Sun (Sun Cloud?), announced at JavaOne last year, is dead (http:// www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/28/sun_amazon_cloud_dead/). Glassfish: To put some necessary distance between the free Glassfish and the "$10,000 per CPU" Weblogic, Glassfish "will be geared for departmental use" (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/ 2010/01/27/urnidgns852573C400693880002576B900002824.DTL), like Apache Geronima and Websphere at IBM. So I expect high-end, enterprise features to either wither away from Glassfish or not being added at all, making Glassfish less attractive for some developers. Netbeans: I know that the slides said that Netbeans will focus on dynamic scripting languages, but in the webcast Ted Farrell said that Oracle wants to "invest into the community for dynamic languages", or so, which I interpreted as Oracle handing those over to the community. Time will tell. iPad: I think the iPad is a new mass-market platform platform with the first new UI paradigm since "keyboard, mouse and GUI" became dominant. With permanent internet connectivity, great media capability and a large touch screen, I'm excited to see what developers come up with. I think that one of the reasons that past tablet efforts failed to gain wide traction where because both the OS and the apps were built upon "keyboard, mouse and GUI" and just slightly adapted; the iPad forces developers to start either from scratch or from their iPhone apps, which is good. -- 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.
