I don't want to bore the thread by digging out some of Rod's 1-year-old (maybe more) discussions on the BORL thread of Java and how it would, within months, be the death of other languages; how it was a "done deal" that Java would be THE language of the future; how revolutionary this language with runtime (sorry, did I say runtime, I must have meant "virtual machine" was).
This stuff just doesn't change that quickly. At the time, as today, Java'a acceptance is marginal, substantial Java-based apps are still eerily missing from store shelves, and the hype has died down considerably.
People need to avoid jumping on the bandwagon at the first turn. I don't have a problem with Borland offering a Java product, but it is [still] WAY too early for a company's overall strategy to rely too heavily on it. IT MAY NOT MAKE IT (I know, we have all been told, a year or more ago, that it is a "done deal". But that doesn't make it so. Ultimately, it matters only whether the language is accepted in the marketplace, which still isn't happening). |
