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To: B Kelly who wrote (5424)11/11/1997 7:59:00 AM
From: Stewart Whitman  Read Replies (3) of 64865
 
> Anyone seen the following article?

This whole article sounds like Microsoft disinformation. I think, at best, they've taken facts and twisted them dramatically. The research company lists Microsoft as a client on their Web sight mdcresearch.com so I'm more than a little suspect.

There's the question of the survey methodology. If they asked a developer "What's wrong with Java?", I'm sure even the Java evangelist could give you their laundry list of problems. The statistics at the end of the article try to give some level credability but it's really just deception unless more information informat is revealed about the survey.

There's so much bias in the presentation. For example, the title "Two-Thirds of Java Developers Losing Faith in 'Write Once, Run
Anywhere'" implies that there's been a change in developer attitude. But they didn't really have any impartial way of evaluating whether there has actually been any change (e.g. sampling before and later). "Only 22 percent of developers surveyed indicated that they were very satisfied with Java as a cross-platform development language". In my experience, getting 22% of all developers to be very satisfied with anything would be a major accomplishment.

For what it's worth, this article implies a very different outlook for Java from that of most developer's that I've talked to. For the short term, Java has some problems (mainly due to the immaturity of the language), but in the longer term it should be a winner. The question of outlook is really not addressed quantitatively in the article, and that is the really key question.

Stew
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