Security, that's all.
A year ago there was one article written by a former Cisco-China employee. Basically he had a 3 month business trip to Cisco HQ in CA for a project, during that trip he noticed there were a special mystious group of people work in Cisco, who use special badges. Out of curiousity he asked his Taiwan friend who they were and he was told that those people were from Pentagon and their job was to plant code in chips that routers use so they can be controlled by special sequence of packets. He was shocked and after he went back to China he sent an email to president of Cisco china, unfortunately he was told to keep his mouth shut, then he quit his job and post that article on Internet.
I am sure Pentagon has people work in Microsoft and trust a foreign company to build the fundation of a nation's security system is just insane.
We all know that Pentagon monitors our communications all the time. what would be more efficent than back door in your router and OS?
go figure.
I believe VB developers have out-numbered C/C++ developers long time ago, but that doesn't mean VB will replace C/C++. Period.
Java is a clean OO language and I believe an experienced developer can use it to create applications under most catagories with acceptable performance. But for those shrink-wrapped software, there is a concept called "competition", I bet if any one use java to develop those general purpose software, his competitor can easily beat the crap out of it by using C/C++.Yes there is a Java mp3 player, but how many people are using it? any company made $ out of it? So the point is not can/can't, the point is which one is the best.
Java fits in In-house projects perfectly well because it's easy and it does offer acceptable performance. and as long as you fulfill the spec you don't need to worry about competition.
I don't have problem with Java, but it's kinda anonying when you hear some Java programmers talking about "Java is more OO than C++", even most time their audience are VB programmers.
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Security, that's all.
A year ago there was one article written by a former Cisco-China employee. Basically he had a 3 month business trip to Cisco HQ in CA for a project, during that trip he noticed there were a special mystious group of people work in Cisco, who use special badges. Out of curiousity he asked his Taiwan friend who they were and he was told that those people were from Pentagon and their job was to plant code in chips that routers use so they can be controlled by special sequence of packets. He was shocked and after he went back to China he sent an email to president of Cisco china, unfortunately he was told to keep his mouth shut, then he quit his job and post that article on Internet.
I am sure Pentagon has people work in Microsoft and trust a foreign company to build the fundation of a nation's security system is just insane.
We all know that Pentagon monitors our communications all the time. what would be more efficent than back door in your router and OS?
go figure.
I believe VB developers have out-numbered C/C++ developers long time ago, but that doesn't mean VB will replace C/C++. Period. Java is a clean OO language and I believe an experienced developer can use it to create applications under most catagories with acceptable performance. But for those shrink-wrapped software, there is a concept called "competition", I bet if any one use java to develop those general purpose software, his competitor can easily beat the crap out of it by using C/C++.Yes there is a Java mp3 player, but how many people are using it? any company made $ out of it? So the point is not can/can't, the point is which one is the best. Java fits in In-house projects perfectly well because it's easy and it does offer acceptable performance. and as long as you fulfill the spec you don't need to worry about competition. I don't have problem with Java, but it's kinda anonying when you hear some Java programmers talking about "Java is more OO than C++", even most time their audience are VB programmers.