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McNealy Steps Down as Sun Microsystems CEO
SlashdotOgre writes "Mercury News reports that Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, will be stepping down from his role as CEO. McNealy will continue as chairman, and fellow co-founder Jonathan Schwartz will now take the helm."
I don't know what planet you are on, but on mine Java is one of the most successful and widely used development languages of all time.
My planet is the one where C is still the most successful and widely used. It is the one where Java failed utterly in the web client space, despite having a tremendous lead. It is the one where Java loses ground to PHP, python, and now Ruby, by the hour. It is the one where java has failed on the desktop nearly completely.
Java is an OK language; there's not much wrong with it. I code in it for a living. I use SUNs APIs nearly not at all, because they are so bad.
If that is 'failing', I would be interested in your definition of 'succeeding'.
Succeeding would be no need for javascript; no need for AJAX; applets everywhere. Succeeding would be [more than] one office suite in pure java. Succeeding would be web applications that were easy enough and powerful enough to write that there wouldn't be any/much need for php, python, and the like.
In short, success may have been someone at the helm that could develop good, usable OO APIs. And a decent UI interface/implementation. SUN failed Java.