Industry Leaders Discuss Java Status Quo

prostoalex writes "JavaPro magazine published a wrap-up report on Java discussions at the recent JavaOne. If you missed JavaOne, the video Webcasts of McNealy, Schwartz, Gosling et al. are available from this site. The round table mentioned above gathered people from Sun, Oracle, Borland, Novell, Motorola and others. The discussion topics included: Java vs. NET, integration issues, the impact of open source and top problems that Java is facing today."

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#1 challenge? it doesn't solve the problem anymore

[*weasel]

java was created to be a write once, run anywhere solution. because of corporate politics and competition, it just doesn't pull it off.

depending on your install base, it can sometimes get by, but more often than not, platform specific code, design, and testing is required - and that puts the kabosh on the development gains.

and that's even ignoring the cost of supporting the various platforms VMs and the VM distribution problem on windows machines of late.

(sun won its suit against microsoft that it was unfairly squeezing out the java vm - then promptly sued microsoft for posting the microsoft jvm on windowsupdate.com because the license from sun didn't explicitly allow that. they won the suit and for some time windows users just couldn't get their hands on a vm. and if that doesn't decimate any gains from using java, i don't know what does)

nice idea, solid effort on the technological end -but it's going the way of betamax and solaris.

Obligatory Slashdot comment on Java

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Dude! Java sucks! Like, I downloaded Java in 1997 and my 133 Pentium ground to a halt. And it's not even open-source! PHP roolz!

[just to save everyone else doing it]