B. Kelly:
One of the most interesting comments I read from this article:
''I don't think Java is going anywhere, therefore I'm not going to use it if I can help it. Some Unix and Macintosh versions work unstably on Netscape versions. MS version is very stable when it works. Makes me not want to develop Java -- it doesn't make sense to develop something you can't be sure will work reliably.'' -- Frank Dziuba, president, Silicon Beach Communications
Frank Dziuba and I used to work together about 5 years ago (91-93) for a company in Santa Barbara, CA before we departed and went our own ways. I have great respect for Frank, have not talked to him for over 4 years, but one thing I can say with confident (and Frank if you are out there reading this please do say so if I am wrong): Frank is a Microsoft Windows (desktop client only) hard core developer.
The article is alledeged to have done a random sampling of 115 developers who have come across Java in one form or another, and of these it is claimed that 67% of them do not have a good impression of Java!! Well, having been a developer for over 15 years and having gone through several technological changes I know that it is usually very difficult for developers (old timers) to change their way of doing things! In otherwords once a developer comes to learn something and bases his professional work on that, it is very difficult for that developer to change! This is to say that, regardless of how much the new technology will benefit the developer's work because of the mental and psychological pattern they have developed with what they have already learned and know, they (the old time developer) will do everything poissible to avoid learning, accepting and using the new technology and will do everything in their power to either ignore it or to get around it! This has been the case from the beginning (from the mainframe to minicomputers to PCs and now to NCs and thin client machines). When it comes to software engineering this is natural and any software engineer who says otherwise simply does not want to accept the fact!
However as majority of developers have learned and those who have not will soon find out is that his time around things are different! What developers want or do not want is absolutely irrlevant!! It does not matter what technology the development manager likes or the software engineer really wants to use, the business well being of the firm these people work for requires them to use Java, therefore their preference is ridiculous and irrlevant! The fact is Java has opened a new broader market for software makers and the business people (not the developers!) that own these business entities are simply too greedy to ignore the huge revenue that the new market will generate for them. Therefore, developers whether they like it or not, will be required (and perhaps even forced) to use the Java technology and make it work whatever it takes to achieve the firm's ultimate goal of making more money!! Therefore, in my opinion, the article posted at biz.yahoo.com is nothing but pure nonesense!!
Regards,
Addi Jamshidi |
