...and if you were a company with only 3% market share, what would you do? It's a for-profit company folks. It's not a glaring windoze RPC hole or anything. They have to make money somehow.
Cut them some slack--they're competing against MS.
Hello!? Why would someone say the sky is falling? In order to sell more umbrellas. Look for each major military contractor to come out with similar studies, all concluding: "We must develop new (and more expensive) weapons!"
It's about money, people. It always is.
Totally agree! I develop my JSP and beans on my Mac, test on Windows 2K, then deploy on Linux RedHat. Yeah, it's a little crazy, but try that with ASP or.Net! Sure, it's possible, but pleeeeze! If you're writing web apps for hetergeneous hosting environments then it's gotta be Java.
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I'm 33 and I earn a living fixing and redoing the mad, coding of a prolific 20-something who learned how to code on the job.
The young get in, get their money, get out, and leave the mess for us "older folk" to clean up.
Young coders = job security for experienced coders.
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...and if you were a company with only 3% market share, what would you do? It's a for-profit company folks. It's not a glaring windoze RPC hole or anything. They have to make money somehow.
Cut them some slack--they're competing against MS.
More crap that won't work. But it'll sell. "Start Internet Explorer" Shutting down...
Active Desktop, where you could have IE as your desktop.
Hmmm...Michael Dell went to Univ. of Texas, the home of the UT Longhorns.
Published in July 2002...now this is news? I guess we have to suffer with these infomercials instead of popups...or are those next too?
Java on the otherhand requires a lot of setup and maintainance... Read: "What's a classpath?" Give me Java or give me a life!
Hello!? Why would someone say the sky is falling? In order to sell more umbrellas. Look for each major military contractor to come out with similar studies, all concluding: "We must develop new (and more expensive) weapons!" It's about money, people. It always is.
And you thought windfarms were bad. Falling birds...now availble shredded *or* fried.
Totally agree! I develop my JSP and beans on my Mac, test on Windows 2K, then deploy on Linux RedHat. Yeah, it's a little crazy, but try that with ASP or .Net! Sure, it's possible, but pleeeeze! If you're writing web apps for hetergeneous hosting environments then it's gotta be Java.
Can't argue that :)
I'm 33 and I earn a living fixing and redoing the mad, coding of a prolific 20-something who learned how to code on the job. The young get in, get their money, get out, and leave the mess for us "older folk" to clean up. Young coders = job security for experienced coders.