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The Faded Sun

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kesrith-shonjir-kutath dept.

jlowery writes "Robert X. Cringely seems to think so. Forget the hardware side: what does this mean to the future of Java? Will there be enough incentive to continue to develop the language for whoever acquires Sun? Or will Java developers have to swallow hard and submit to the whims of the dark overlord? Maybe I'll switch to Mac development, after all."

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  1. Tsarkon Reports - Sun dies because YOU suck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sun will die because the world is full of

    FUCKING GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKING pussies.

    You fucking fags use shit OSes.

    You fucking fags use shit hardware.

    You fucking fags know nothing. You and your IA-32. You fucking cunts.

    Try a 106 way E15K fuckface Try it! Or a real HPPA or Power machine.

    You fucking pussies all fuck with gay hardware. You god damn fucking cunts.

    1. Re:Tsarkon Reports - Sun dies because YOU suck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I Agree with this post. Slashdot is all pussy little bitch faggot shithead losers.

  2. Re:Java is dying by Billly+Gates · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Any company that chooses .net over other alternatives will get what they deserve.

    Absolutely. It is called SUCCESS !!!

    --
    http://saveie6.com/
  3. Re:Sun is gone and Microsoft is here to stay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Oh, sorry - I don't understand C++ but you can check my skills in english:

    FUCK YOURSELF!!!

  4. Java, the mystery force that analysis can not see by moduc · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Take this, Java is suck from start. It's slow, buggy, can not do what a great platform does. Not really that platform independent (not really write once run anywhere). Ok, you go on and say it. Now, Java is suck. It's bad!!! Slow, not as good as .Not (sorry, .Net) in term of architecture. It also does not have the big M$'s marketing money from Sun. Well, you can go on, but look. If you are a thinker, or at least try to be, and you bought into my argument above, you are a FOOL. The hidden strength in Java, no matter how bad people think it is, push Java forward to today. It excellerates every day. It still excellerate on server. The desktop app is just a start. If you look out there, java is growing very very fast. Why so? it's open, and embraced by many. So, the marketing money is big, it's not from Sun, it's from many company including IBM. The speed, yes, Java is still slow. But, it works great for my desktop app I just release a while ago. It would works great for many desktop apps. For server, there's no question about speed. And computer with 2 gigs will become obsolete soon. Note, I am still running my 550 MHz, and my apps run great. So, java will be faster, but it's much much better shape than before in speed, and the hardware gets faster all the time. Architecturally, for enterprise, it's great. Maynot be as good as other technology (I am not sure about that), but it's good enough to excel. It dominants the app server area. No question about it, and if you count the market share, it's accelerating. Yes, M$ gain some share, but remember, they start from 0 for .Net, and 100% for desktop, so no question about that, but again, if you look at awhole, I don't think .Net will go that far. Not as far as any successful business M$ is ever in been. I knew long ago that webservice is just a replacement of Corba. Yes, it has its shine, but the hype stop there. I used Corba for a while. I love it, and I hate it. But, despite people complaint and think it's dead, it's used everywhere that needs bridge tech. One more note before I am done with the app server. news.com has a stupid headline lately. I love news.com if you ask. What is it, it said Java app server suffer from Open source OS. Hey, the JBoss and Tomcat is written in Java. And they are the OSS they talked about. The topic should be changed to soemthing like: commercial java app fears java open source. Or Java app servers as a whole kill .Net. Well enough of it if you read the things. Good enough for desktop and server. Go to embeded, it's only the begging of Java, and it is doing great. This is thanks to the cell phone manufacturere and symbian (or whatever it is) OS. If M$ dominate the embeded OS, Java would not be there. But look at the future, Java shines here, and quoting one of the article I read (maybe from news.com) microsoft is outside looking-in in the embeded phone market. Other areas, you can use the same analysis, but if you think, if you're an analysis, first ask yourself, why Java was slow, bad archtitected, not fully write once run anywhere, and it still accell everyday on all fronts.

  5. Sun: Ugly Computing and Declining Quality by Glindonna · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sun hardware -- like that of other workstation vendors from the early nineties NeXT, HP and SGI -- used to be the absolute balls. Those machines were built like brick shithouses; you could hammer nails with an old Sun keyboard. Now, the flimsy Taiwanese crap they ship is just commodity PC junk marked up to ludicrous prices only a Lockheed Martin would pay.

    Let's be honest, Sun is a deeply arrogant company and Solaris has got to be the ugliest, most antiseptic and lifeless computing experience a human being can have forced upon them. It's a chore not to go start raving insane from the cold, clinical dullness of it all.

    Sun could use Apple, alright, as Apple at least makes their computers with actual human beings in mind. Sun machines feel like they're built for robot accountants.

    There is simply no reason to accept this crap anymore. Like Java itself, Sun has become a bloated, self-important waste of time. Adios amigos! You will not be missed.

    NeXT!

    Glin