Comments on: Wherefore Java at Java One. Microsoft and OSS: Increment or Tipping Point?

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Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:41:38 +0000

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By: dav

dav — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:55:12 +0000

Java is toast.

Eight or so years ago there was a whole section, six shelves high with at lest 15 books on a shelf, at the Border’s Bookstore in Mt. Kisco. All were about Java.

When I last checked, there were perhaps ten it total.

This mirrors, more slowly, what has happened to Notes. When I went in 2004 for a book on writing a Notes app, there was only one. It wasn’t very good, but it was the only game in town.

Java isn’t good, and it isn’t the only game in town …

I recently bought an Ultraspack station, circa 1999, for under $100. It cost $30,000 a decade ago. It is an amazing piece of hw. Sun also had Java a decade ago.

1) Java bytecode was needed then when bandwidth was low, and then only for browser apps.

Otherwise Java should be directed in machine language for the target platform. IBM and Sun wasted well north of a hundred million dollars on dynamic compilation, when then should have harnessed the s/w to Moore’s Law by going directly to machine code.

2) Since almost all computers then — and now — run Windows, Sun should have made MS their friend and not their enemy.

Sun is history. I’m amazed Oracle even bother to host JavaOne.

It should have been a wake, and thus should have been called

JavaDone.

By: nik_g · June 03, 2009 02:00:15

nik_g · June 03, 2009 02:00:15 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:00:15 +0000

We’re excited about the FTW! showdown, and the game lounge. FarCry2, FTW!

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:47:28 +0000

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By: davidcrow

davidcrow — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:44:11 +0000

“Its a lot harder to gain a good reputation than to lose a bad one” @monkchips #microsoft #whuffie #opensource http://bit.ly/4KyC1

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By: monkchips

monkchips — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:40:27 +0000

glassfish interoperability with/through Azure blammo! that’s the Microsoft keynote. http://bit.ly/16eB0P #communityone #azure #cloud #metro

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By: ebarroca

ebarroca — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:47:48 +0000

worth reading: Wherefore Java at Java One. Microsoft and OSS: Increment or Tipping Point?:
“The F.. http://tinyurl.com/n5sxgc

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By: hortovanyi

hortovanyi — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:46:07 +0000

@nickHodge wtf .. M$ Keynoting Java One??? http://bit.ly/ZYee0

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By: Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo Foley — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:19:11 +0000

Hi, James. Technically, MS already announced it is supporting Java with Azure. I say “technically” because when I last asked about it, they seemed reticent to admit the extent to which they are doing so. Though they didn’t want this piece of information to be public, they are funding the development of a Java SDK for .Net Services (one of the pieces of Azure). More here:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2504

Mary Jo

By: timanderson

timanderson — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:17:57 +0000

speculation on what Microsoft might announce at Java One from @monkchips http://is.gd/J7cZ (now with URL, apologies!)

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