JC: I printed and saved that O'Reilly article, and sent out many pointers to it. For me it stated old things in a new way. Thanks for posting it.
O'Reilly does in fact have a stake in Java. He has at least one book, Java In A Nutshell, that's perennially on the tech-book bestseller lists and probably makes him a ton of money, and he has a new series of Java programming books that have come out within the last year or so. He does mention Java once in the piece.
I could think of a whole rash of reasons why he didn't mention Sun specifically. The best one is that the companies he mentioned most, Dell and M$FT, discovered proprietary business models built on the opening of a new "commoditized" standard. Sun, although it has benefitted enormously from everything he's talking about, hasn't really done that, even though they have contributed major open (or semi-open) weapons to the war against proprietary software. But it's that bending of the open to the proprietary that he's mainly warning against, and Sun isn't guilty of that, though some accuse them of trying to be.
It looks like Sun is trying to heed his warnings to me, perhaps somewhat clumsily.
I assume others have comments as well. But thanks again for posting that article.
Regards,
--QwikSand |
