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windows bios world writes: "As this article states, 'There was little love from the leaders of the Java movement toward Microsoft's new framework for creating Web services, but there were signs of accommodation among some at the conference.' One of the most popular booth-trinkets was a button with a slash through it that said .NOT. A video shown at the first keynote depicted the Java Smart Car driving circles around a Bill Gates look-alike. The back of Bill's T-shirt, of course, was emblazoned with a J-flat logo instead of J-sharp."
... our captains of industy acting like petulant teenagers. Restores one's faith in late imperial capitalism, it does.
Bleah,
(jfb)
To spur "enterprise Linux," Big Bang, the distributed two-phase commit.
When I worked at Sun, copies of the Bill-Borg magazine cover were everywhere. Funny at first, but tiresome after a while. And when the Bill-the-Nazi graphic started showing up, I wanted to scream, "Grow up, people!"
My favorite example from the other side. During the 2K election, one of the voters NPR interviewed was an highly-optioned MS guy who wasn't gonna get to retire at 35 after all. Naturally he blamed his woes on Bill, Hil, and Al. He proclaimed that he would vote Republican "out of enlightened self-interest"!
Stop focusing on MS. They have a bettwer product in the things that they focus on (Scalability, OS) and better parteners they can turn to for Support (Oracle has nothing to Fear from Sun). Java is a great langauge, and a clear direction to go. Who cares what MS comes up with? Sun and MS, believe it or not, are in different markets. There is overlap, in the development strategy they are pushing, but not in their core strengths.
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...then they couldn't write all those silly "FUD Watch" rants. Which are, of course, themselves a kind of FUD!
Naming your product "Sun ONE" is pretty blatent if you ask me, at least M$ give you a break with names. Sure it uses open, standard interfaces between components but that's only because they're the minority so it's to their advantage to be interpolation. I doubt it would stay that way once they've won (I think the pun is intended). Sun is just another big company trying to make money so you can't get too upset qwith them for trying to gain market share by recruiting anti-M$ people. Hiding your monoply-in-the-making within an anti-monoply ball is the logical strategy afterall.
Another thing that bothers me is that Sun has always, at least in the public works I've seen, dismissed their competetiors and childishly called them names. The strategy of pretending that the competition isn't competition at all is a tried-and-failed one. I would much rather see Sun encourging intelligent debate and taking note of the arguments on both sides to improve their platform.
For those that are saying "ooo, childish", do try to remember that it's supposed to be in fun, to entertain the crowd. There's a role for evangelizing. Many people will tell you that the primary reason they go is to get pumped up about what they do for a living. You don't do that by saying "Wow, ya know, .NET is just as good as Java." At last McNealy stopped the damned top ten lists.
And don't forget Monkey Boy Ballmer. No one at JavaONE yelled "Give it up for me."
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We could do a FUDge watch. You know, when lots of other guys are fucking you in your ass? Get it, FUDge watch?
That's Funny!!!
i dont care what anyone says- its still c-pound to me. I'm gonna freak the first time an operator tells me to hit the sharp key on my phone.