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Sun Java Desktop 2 Review

Posted by timothy on from the then-say-it-to-me dept.

Anon. writes "Linux.com is carrying a pretty damning review of Sun Java Desktop System version 2. JDS seemed to have issues with almost each and every machine the author tested it on, support was quite bad - and to top it all, the software comes with a seven page license document. Something seems to be terribly wrong somewhere - otherwise why would Sun decide to ship JDS with kernel 2.4.19 at this stage?" (Slashdot and Linux.com are both part of OSDN.)

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  1. My apologies.... by mabu · · Score: 0, Troll

    to all you CSCI students whose curriculum centered around Java (not unlike those who studied ADA), or those of you who jumped on that bandwagon because it was the hot new thing and you could charge three times more for app development, or you had goofy managers that insisted on the use of the technology, but please... can we put this puppy to rest?

    I'm totally in support of an open applications suite to compete with Office for *nix, but something being Java-based might as well be written in Fortran or Cobol. I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but as a developer that's written commercial software for 20+ years, I still have yet to see any great advantage to using Java. Yes, there are a few narrow, client-side applications where some of Java's abilities make it the most appropriate development environment, but in 95% of most scenarios, Java is not the most suitable development environment for applications.

    There are plenty of more portable, higher performance languages to use. Java is dead, thanks in no small part to Microsoft, but even so, I believe it never really had much of a future.
    When a new language comes out and requires massive marketing efforts to make people recognize it as a viable platform, that's a bad sign.

    1. Re:My apologies.... by HBI · · Score: 0, Troll

      Umm, Mabu - they mod anything they don't agree with to Troll status.

      Reminds me of the weekly political meetings in the old USSR where a different person would have to give an 'original' recital of Marxist/Leninist thought drawn from one of the approved works. Original thought was not permitted. The will of the masses shall not be denied.

      Hence my tagline...

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      HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
  2. Re:Dead company walking... by turgid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. You are a troll.

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    Stick Men
  3. Accents? by adelayde · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wonder what the "even more heavily accented Indian" thought when he heard your probably heavily accented whereeveryoucomefrom accent eh?

    It's a great shame to me about the prejudice on accents, I was reading that review with some semblance of interest, but when the person goes on about the heavy Scottish accent or the even heavier Indian accent is reaks of prejudism and if I may say so borders on racism and devalues the entire review.

    You can stuff your non-working Sun Java Desktop 2 or whatever it's called and your four machines firmly up the place where the sun doesn't shine. No pun intended.