"John S. Gage" wrote:
>
> Is Java the best way into the future?
>
There can be many ways to interpret 'best'.
>From a technical merit standpoint, the discussion will go on forever.
>From a open source standpoint, it's not quite there, but there is enough
free and/or open processes to not be a complete showstopper. (if you
want to argue that all software components should be GPL'd, then java is
not for you).
>From a pragmatic standpoint, java will likely exist and be
upgraded/supported for quite some time; there are an increasing number
of programmers available with java experience; the commercial internet
development tool world (sans M/S) is almost 100% java based right now.
The one big caveat is that Microsoft is fighting it, not directly
anymore, but indirectly via their internet development tools and
developer community. So if you are microsoft shop, java is not for you
either.
