The Faded Sun

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."

Comments

Sun is gone and Microsoft is here to stay!

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone knows Microsoft is #1 in the world on desktop and handheld computing. Windows CE and Smart Phones(tm) are becoming industry standards. If you ask people about computers they believe Windows(tm) == Computers. I believe it too, because I am an educated Computer Scientist.who graduated with an MCSE and an MCSD form ITT Techinical Institute.

I also have a Masters in Computer science from Berekely where I learned on inferior Sparc/Solaris and *BSD. Having experience in both the *nix world and Microsoft I can definatly pronounce MS the winner. .NET is the future, and unlike java it supports *any* computer language!!!

Trolltech and IBM are just trying to rile Microsoft up. Handhelds are Microsoft's domain because they deal with the desktop!!! I hope Microsoft has a reprisal for both IBM and Trolltech. Hopefully MS will crush Trolltech like Netscape and Java.

These opinions are based in my years of experience, and learning. For any doubters here is a sample of my C++ programming skill.

#include windows.h
#inlcude ole2.h
#include iostream.h
#include vector.h

using namespace::std;

void int main(){

std::vector string V;
std::vector string::iterator it = V.begin();

for(auto i=0; i10000; ++i){
V.push_back("Microsoft Rules");
}

for(it ; it != V.end(); it++){

cout*it;
}

return 0;
}

Re:Sounds trollish

[Ulve]

Yeah. And objectivity is what /. is all about =P

Re:it is VERY trollish

[orthogonal]

have your own in-house monkeys do the board swapping

Ever since I was a little boy, I've wanted my ouwn troupe of in-house monkeys. Wearing those little red caps, and holding those little tin cups, like organ grinders' monkeys.

Or midgets would do, too.

Re:SUPER-ROBOTS WILL WIPE OUT MANKIND!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, says advanced robots that are smarter, stronger and better than human beings in every way are just around the corner and that "we may not survive the encounter with the superior robot species."

Well, $2/hr India PhD's are pretty good practice.

Re:Too Much...

[wfrp01]

If he's not, I will.