On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:21:17 +0200, Ricky Clarkson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Selling more has little to do with being better, get that out of your
head.
You're Italian, right? Starbucks sells more than Italian coffee shops,
but is not better in any meaningful way (perhaps more comfortable
chairs).
It's a matter of market targets. Almost the whole rest of the world
doesn't know what coffee means, or - better - give to the word "coffee" a
different meaning - and they are hundreds of millions of customers versus
a few dozens of italians. But, figure it out, Starbucks gave up opening
shops in Italy. It's not a comparable example, because there are no big
geographic differences in the popularity of Java vs C#.
In any case, I'm perfectly aware that selling is not necessarily related
to being better, and it's exactly part of my point. Either you think that
this lack of causation is a matter of the cynical fate, or you try to find
out a rationale. Found a rationale, you try to fight the cause. The only
rationale I've seen so far is blaming the Java seniors. So, what? Are you
going to wait for all of them to retire?
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"We make Java work. Everywhere."
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