Okay, Rod, answer the question. Could you name the two or three top-selling Java apps at your local Egghead or Best Buy?
Sadly we have another display of ignorance and there's just no polite way to say that. Was that the question? Or was it how many Java applications do you use? Your question suggests that software can still be purchased in a brick 'n mortar store, I assume you can but I wouldn't know. As for the Perl comments, I would use Python, not Perl, given the choice. To compare Perl and Java is to compare SQL and Bash scripts: an asinine comparison; utterly asinine.
Now, as for naming Java applications that I use, e-commerce is powered by Java on both the front and back-ends. Anybody who isn't aware of that isn't working in the industry. Name one software company that doesn't have a major Java product in the stores or in the works? What products do you use?
You use a browser and an office suite, that's about it for most people and you can throw in games. Well, they do have Java office suites but let's take the worlds largest, most important application: remote information access through a browser. What application server are you talking to?
Maybe IBM?
www-4.ibm.com
Maybe Silverstream?
silverstream.com
Maybe Sun?
iplanet.com
Name an application server that is not Java powered.
Why don't you guys get out from under the rock and open your eyes. Java technology is driving virtually every piece of distributed software on the global Internet. How many applications are being written that don't have a browser-based interface? Visual Basic and Delphi form-based applications, that's about it. Name a new shrink-wrapped application that you recently purchased? Look at the astonishing array of Java APIs that are out there and the importance of Java to the proliferation of XML, that is, in B2B software.
If you think that old shrink-wrapped software defines the success of Java then you need to slap yourself upside the head and put down the bottle for a couple of days. |
