Microsoft's latest Java move provokes outcry
infoworld.com
Microsoft's announcement Wednesday here at Internet World of the beta test program of its forthcoming Java development tool upgrade has provoked a declaration of war from one Java developers group.
Sheesh, a little late to the game there. Microsoft declared war last summer.
Microsoft's Visual J++ 6.0 is being viewed by the Java Lobby as a sign that Microsoft wants to extend its stranglehold on the industry and further fragment the programming language developed and owned by Sun Microsystems, an archrival of Microsoft.
So? Somebody doesn't seem to understand standard Microsoft business practice here.
"Regrettably, the time has come to abandon all hope that Microsoft will cease their antagonism to Java and to us, the community of Java developers and supporters," wrote Rick Ross, Java Lobby president, in a letter posted Tuesday on the group's Web site. "Microsoft has raised the stakes with a new attempt to fragment the Java platform, Visual J++ 6.0. This forthcoming product reportedly alters the Java programming language itself."
"It is clear that if they cannot own or control Java, then they will do everything in their power to destroy it," Ross continued. "There is no chance whatsoever that they will relent."
I don't know if Rick is naive or was being strung along. Of course, for a while Microsoft was laying low here, that part fooled me for a while. Now, it's back to war as usual. Shoot, if they left it alone, Java would replace Windows in a day! Bill said so himself.
Cheers, Dan. |
