Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA

Mortimer.CA writes "Straight from Jonathan Schwartz's weblog, Sun is changing their ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA: 'JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that's inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). [...] To be very clear, this isn't about changing the company name or focus — we are Sun, we are a systems company, and we will always be a derivative of the students that created us, Stanford University Network is here to stay. But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category — and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.'"

Comments

Sounds normal to me

[Anonymous Coward]

Java was a corporate-driven solution to a non existing technical problem, whose only purpose was to lock developers/users into a proprietary technology where you kill most of your machine resources or give up all advertised multiplatform compatibility, sometimes both. When it got opened by Sun, most ideological obstacles were removed, still there are a lot of technical ones.
Before modding me as troll, go ahead and count how many Java programs come in different packages aimed at different platforms, linked with native C or C++ libraries to achieve decent speed; not so different from a tar.gz C or C++ source archive, only much much bigger/slower and not multiplatform.

Want to trade some speed to run you program everywhere? Then go for Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl etc. Java is for corporate drones and Wall Street yuppies.

Now let the flame war begin.

Re:Uhm.

[MrNaz]

Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.

Skipping the obvious vulgarities, how about Standard Language Of Workstations, or S-L-O-W ?

Re:Uhm.

[oliverthered]

If it was named after .net that would be Exceptionally Slow.

Re:The horse is dead, quit beating it.

[jcr]

could you sleep without testing your programs on the supported platforms with any other language/platform?

Whether other languages succeed in this or not has no effect on the fact that Java promised it and didn't deliver.

-jcr