--- Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All- > > I guess I'm still catching up on unread emails from > while I was out of > town, but I just came across the announcement this > morning that Sun > has now released java under the GPLv2 license: > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=199 > > -- > -Mark Wieder >
Hi Mark, My best guess is that they're trying to turn the .NET tide by having the Linux distributions ship with the Java Virtual Machine, lest they adopt the Mono framework (an open-source project to bring .NET to Linux, MacOSX and Solaris). Java is taking blows from different sides at once: .NET on the desktop and server side in all-Microsoft environments, and platforms like Ruby on Rails on the server side that J2EE used to reign supremely but now fails to provide quick setup in a Service-Oriented Architecture. Java isn't going away any time soon for development of enerprise solutions, but the competition is stronger than ever. In spite of projects like Eclipse and NetBeans, there's still no IDE that makes it as easy to develop applications with a rich UI the way Visual Studio can. And what does this mean for our beloved Revolution? In its strongest areas, it's magnitudes faster to develop an application than other tools. After a week we'll probably have something that works while the Java guys are still debating the responsabilities of the classes they're going to develop. Don't get me wrong, I like Java - but it's just not Revolution... Jan Schenkel. Quartam Reports for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
