Sun is a great engineering organization strapped to a mindless marketing department and this naming insanity illustrates it.
All I can think of is that they are trying to emulate Microsoft by attaching new names to the same old shit in hopes of getting more attention for it (like Windows Server 2003 vs. Windows XP). Somehow it's supposed to sound more impressive if you call it "Java 2" instead of "Java 1.2", or JDS instead of Linux (eventhough maybe 0.0001% of the platform is written in Java), or Solaris instead of SunOS.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "We put the dot in dot-com" was supposed to mean.
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Sun is a great engineering organization strapped to a mindless marketing department and this naming insanity illustrates it.
All I can think of is that they are trying to emulate Microsoft by attaching new names to the same old shit in hopes of getting more attention for it (like Windows Server 2003 vs. Windows XP). Somehow it's supposed to sound more impressive if you call it "Java 2" instead of "Java 1.2", or JDS instead of Linux (eventhough maybe 0.0001% of the platform is written in Java), or Solaris instead of SunOS.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "We put the dot in dot-com" was supposed to mean.