"Volker A. Brandt" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I understand your frustration, as I have been feeling it myself.
>
> Yes, Sun has made two big mistakes:  Implementing IPS in Python, and
> ditching scripting capability in the packages.  I'm sure these seemed
> like good engineering decisions way back at the drawing board.  But
> they're a disaster in terms of marketing, installed base, and usability.
>
> But Sun has always been engineering rather than marketing driven, and
> frankly, that's why I like them. :-)

It seems that the type of engineer at Sun did change since the days of Bill Joy.

Jörg

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