99% correct, the 1% being that Netscape still enjoys roughly 80% market share. Microsoft flaunting its incompetence, having a browser built into 90% of the world's operating systems but being used by 20% of the people...
Imagine my delight a couple of months back when Netscape, AOL, and Sun crafted a partnership. And Microsoft couldn't even use this effectively in their antitrust lawsuit - they'd have to admit that Sun was suddenly positioned to beat them!
Now add Sun's recent acquisition of Star Division, creators of Star Office, perhaps the first Unix-based home/office productivity package capable of rivaling Microsoft Office, and you have to believe that Bill Gates and his minions are genuinely afraid...
They can't officially call it Java due to trademark law, but they nevertheless use their bastardized, proprietary version as if it were the real thing, with the all-too-well-known Javascript errors, hung browsers, and crashed PC's as the inevitable result. As for me, I've banned Wintel from my house. My SPARCstation has been up and running for 271 days without so much as a hiccup.
At the risk of being pedantic, that's czar or tsar, depending on your transliteration of the Russian language...which would not be an important point if we were not speaking of languages here.
Yes, Sun wanted to be in control. Yes, Sun wanted to own a world standard, the next C. How does that differ from Microsoft's grip on the world vis-a-vis having a 90% market share on Joe Sixpack's desktop O/S? In Sun and Java, at least the standard would be under good management...
Ownership of a "world standard" in and of itself is meaningless anyway -- after all, SCO owns the rights to SVR4, but who in his right mind would use SCO Unix in any mission-critical application (my former employer notwithstanding) ??
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever
As for all the good people being contractors.. I dispute that. Those contractors don't get good options in startups as a general rule. They may get more $/hour, but in the end the employees who stick it out tend to cash in way more.
My experience is, contractors tend to be motivated by one thing - money. This makes them exactly the wrong people for a long-term project, and any project manager worth his salt must view his project as long-term, regardless of the facts. Speaking from painful experience (I administer the largest paid-subscription website on the www) contractors, while acceptable to fill the gaps in an emergency, are no substitute for employees who share the company's vision and have a stake in the company's success.
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever
It would be nice to see Java and Java working well together. Until the inventor (Sun) and the primary user (Microsoft) can agree on one form of Java that works everywhere, it will never live up to its billing as a true platform-independent language. Alas, a great idea once again falls victim to corporate politics and the almighty dollar.
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever
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99% correct, the 1% being that Netscape still enjoys roughly 80% market share. Microsoft flaunting its incompetence, having a browser built into 90% of the world's operating systems but being used by 20% of the people...
Imagine my delight a couple of months back when Netscape, AOL, and Sun crafted a partnership. And Microsoft couldn't even use this effectively in their antitrust lawsuit - they'd have to admit that Sun was suddenly positioned to beat them!
Now add Sun's recent acquisition of Star Division, creators of Star Office, perhaps the first Unix-based home/office productivity package capable of rivaling Microsoft Office, and you have to believe that Bill Gates and his minions are genuinely afraid...
They can't officially call it Java due to trademark law, but they nevertheless use their bastardized, proprietary version as if it were the real thing, with the all-too-well-known Javascript errors, hung browsers, and crashed PC's as the inevitable result. As for me, I've banned Wintel from my house. My SPARCstation has been up and running for 271 days without so much as a hiccup.
The Zaar of *the* language
At the risk of being pedantic, that's czar or tsar, depending on your transliteration of the Russian language...which would not be an important point if we were not speaking of languages here.
Yes, Sun wanted to be in control. Yes, Sun wanted to own a world standard, the next C. How does that differ from Microsoft's grip on the world vis-a-vis having a 90% market share on Joe Sixpack's desktop O/S? In Sun and Java, at least the standard would be under good management...
Ownership of a "world standard" in and of itself is meaningless anyway -- after all, SCO owns the rights to SVR4, but who in his right mind would use SCO Unix in any mission-critical application (my former employer notwithstanding) ??
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever
As for all the good people being contractors.. I dispute that. Those contractors don't get good options in startups as a general rule. They may
get more $/hour, but in the end the employees who stick it out tend to cash in way more.
My experience is, contractors tend to be motivated by one thing - money. This makes them exactly the wrong people for a long-term project, and any project manager worth his salt must view his project as long-term, regardless of the facts. Speaking from painful experience (I administer the largest paid-subscription website on the www) contractors, while acceptable to fill the gaps in an emergency, are no substitute for employees who share the company's vision and have a stake in the company's success.
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever
It would be nice to see Java and Java working well together. Until the inventor (Sun) and the primary user (Microsoft) can agree on one form of Java that works everywhere, it will never live up to its billing as a true platform-independent language. Alas, a great idea once again falls victim to corporate politics and the almighty dollar.
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever