Isn't there a much simpler explanation? Apple tested their services on OpenJDK running on a mac, noted it worked just fine, and moved on?
On Nov 5, 11:40 pm, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my Twitter follows joked "well, I guess Apple isn't putting > XServes in that North Carolina data center", and maybe there's a > connection between this and the deprecation of Java. A lot of us > pointed out "hey, wait, WebObjects runs on Java, and that's the heart > and soul of Apple's various online stores." Others then pointed out > that WebObjects runs just fine on other platforms and doesn't have to > be on Mac… so, yay Java. > > So maybe this data center won't be stocked with XServes, but with some > other hardware that's perfectly capable of running Java and > WebObjects. Dell blades running Java? Why not? Or maybe whatever > they're doing isn't going to be WebObjects-based at all… but with no > more XServe, the question of what they run and what they run it on > becomes completely unknowable. > > Or here's another idea. Consider the fact that Apple keeps itself > very lean -- I have friends there who've been laid off in the last few > months, while the company is making all kinds of crazy money, because > their jobs have genuinely been obsoleted. The company also reassigns > people aggressively. Like I've said before, never use your developer > service incidents in the Spring, because the ADC support engineers > will all have been reassigned to the Summer release of iOS, and won't > get back to you until August. > > So think of that, and then consider the hypothesis that none of this > has anything to do with the merits of Java or XServes at all, but > instead is about freeing up people to build some Big New Thing. The > Java and XServe teams are now available for new projects. There are > probably lots of others. > > That scenario kind of reminds me of the detectives at the end of the > first Act of the "V For Vendetta" comic book. V has killed all of his > old enemies, and the one detective says "maybe this has all been an > elaborate vendetta. That's the explanation that I find most > reassuring, because that means it's over." > > "But what if he's just been clearing the ground? What if he's > planning something else?" > > --Chris > > On Nov 5, 5:13 pm, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Given that they just introduced the Mac Pro Server line up with OSX Server > > you might want to think again... > > > Whats more interesting is Apple is currently hiring for a senior cloud java > > developer. -- 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.
