JavaSoft faces widespread reorganization
infoworld.com
"JavaSoft is not meeting product schedules, not meeting deadlines,
and generally confusing the market," said one JavaSoft partner who
requested anonymity. "Most of the time we don't know if they are going
to end up competing with us. But we do see Schwartz as a very
brilliant product strategist."
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JavaSoft angered its partners by slipping on its deadline for HotSpot,
its dynamic compilation technology, and then informing partners that
it planned to charge as much as $250,000 for the technology.
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"We would welcome a change within JavaSoft, because they have taken a
competitive stance," said Annrai O'Toole, chief technology officer at
Dublin, Ireland-based Iona Technologies. "We tried to tell them that
there is little value to creating their own ORB and over-bloating the
Java Development Kit, but they wouldn't listen to us."
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"JavaSoft is obviously an engineering-led company," said John Rymer,
director and senior consultant at Upstream Consulting, in Emeryville,
Calif. "They have been producing new technology almost monthly but
they lack the focus of a serious technology company."
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