I'm really sad about Oracle's decisions involving Java, but i had to admit that Sun's aquisition was a really good busness step. Think about others big companies (in ERP, LOB software and others), every big company has their own language and technology stack.SAP has ABAP, Microsoft has .NET, Apple has Object C, TOTVS (in Brazil) has ADVPL and Totvs tech. Is natural that Oracle will like to have a solid technology base to construct their products, that's actually, is aready in JAVA (not the DB part, the ERP). Even Google is building their own language (Go), witch i won't be surprised if next android versions start to support it.
Now Oracle has the entire control over the software and as a "bonus", won the hardware and operational system... Java is not dead, but i think that new companies will begin to think twice when considerer Java as their primary language development. There are companies that prefer to choose a language that is supported for a big solid company like Microsoft. This companies will look that Oracle "control" in Java as a good thing. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Brett Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > I think IDEs are important too, and will always be better in a static typed > language like java. I haven't seen a ruby (or python) IDE that comes close > to the java IDEs. Look at Google Web Toolkit. I hate java, but I still use > GWT for ajax apps instead of rails. (And by the way, it has an awesome > discussion list :) > > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:25 PM, egervari <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm just curious if you think Java is dead. >> >> That's like going on the PHP list asking if Perl is dead. Are you >> seeking bias on purpose? :) >> >> I began developing Andorid apps last year and am presently making >> quite a bit of money from them. From my perspective, Java is not >> dead, far from it. >> >> If you subscribe to some of the the popular job sites, Dice, >> CareerBuilder, etc., you'll quickly see that Java is still very >> popular. I see about 5-10 Java jobs listed for just my local area in >> middle TN per day, and this area is in no way the technology capitol >> of the world. >> >> >> -- >> Greg Donald >> destiney.com | gregdonald.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
